Joanna HolmanIn Bronze Age Britain, artists made a 100 metre long picture of a horse using trenches filled with chalk. For 3000 years people have regularly repaired the artwork, removing stray plants and topping up chalk. There’s something very beautiful about a chain of people with such wildly different experiences of the world preserving beauty and creativity across millenniums
Attie Grande@joannaholman Many years ago, I made a map of some of the White Horses with suggested parking locations... I planned to work my way through each one - I'm sure I missed more than one.
https://www.google.com/mymaps/viewer?mid=1TS883dJwj1WhHoiDLSDVyvSkdkI
tautology@attie @joannaholman what about the ones outside Wiltshire such as the Kilburn White Horse (although that's only 150 years old). They need some love too.
@tautology @joannaholman Bit of a trek for me, but added - thanks!
Peejmaybe@tautology @attie @joannaholman I've driven all 9 before (and yep there are 9, not including ones that have sadly been left to grow over like the tiny Marborough White Horse. There's even a Red Horse not too far from Banbury called The Red Horse of Tysoe. I am a total nerd for these hill figures and am lucky enough to live about 30 mins away by car from the Uffington one