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List of hill figures in Wiltshire

This is a list of hill figures in Wiltshire (ranked by age).

White horse figures[edit]

Rank	Name	Location	Created	Age (years)	Width	Height	Image
1	Westbury White Horse	Westbury	1778[1]	246	170 feet (52 m)	180 feet (55 m)
2	Cherhill White Horse	Cherhill	1780	244	165 feet (50 m)	120 feet (37 m)
3	Marlborough White Horse	Preshute	1804	220	62 feet (19 m)	47 feet (14 m)
4	Alton Barnes White Horse	Alton Barnes, near Alton	1812	212	160 feet (49 m)	180 feet (55 m)
5	Hackpen White Horse	Broad Hinton	1838	186	90 feet (27 m)	90 feet (27 m)
6	Broad Town White Horse	Broad Town	1864	160	80 feet (24 m)	60 feet (18 m)
7	Pewsey White Horse	Pewsey	1937	87	66 feet (20 m)	45 feet (14 m)
8	Devizes White Horse	Roundway	1999	25	150 feet (46 m)	148 feet (45 m)

Military figures[edit]

Rank	Name	Location	Created	Age (years)	Width	Height	Image
1	Fovant Badges	Fovant	1916	108
2	Royal Warwickshire Badge	Sutton Mandeville	1916	108
3	Shiny 7th Badge	Sutton Mandeville	1916	108
4	Lamb Down Military Badge	Codford	1916–17	107	175 feet (53 m)	150 feet (46 m)
5	Map of Australia	Compton Down, near Compton Chamberlayne	1917	107	150 feet (46 m)	About 125 feet (38 m)
6	Bulford Kiwi	Bulford	1919	105	About 460 feet (140 m)	420 feet (128 m)

Others[edit]

Rank	Name	Location	Created	Age (years)	Width	Height	Image
1	Tame Buzzard Line[2]	New Art Centre, Salisbury[2]	2001[3]	23	2.3 feet (0.7 m)[4]	115 feet (35.1 m)[4]
2	Pterry the Pterodactyl[5]	Upavon Golf Club	21st century		About 45 feet (14 m)	About 38 feet (12 m)
3	Devizes White Horse replica[6]	Nursteed School, Devizes[6]	2012[6]	12	About 15 feet (5 m)	About 14.8 feet (5 m)

Former figures[edit]

Rank	Name	Location	Created	Lost	Width	Height	Image
1	Former Westbury White Horse	Westbury	Unknown (no later than 1742)	1778	96 feet (29 m)	32 feet (10 m)
2	Former Pewsey White Horse	Pewsey	1785	1937	43 feet (13 m)	Unknown
3	Former Devizes White Horse	Devizes	1845	Around 1922	Unknown	Unknown
4	Ham Hill or Inkpen White Horse	Ham Hill near Inkpen, Berkshire	1860s	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
5	Finsbury Rifles Hurdcott Badge[7]	Barford St Martin[7]	1910s	Unknown
6	Rockley White Horse	Rockley	Discovered 1948	20th century	126 feet (38 m)	66 feet (20 m)
7	Laverstock Panda[8]	Laverstock[8][9]	1969[8]	1980s	55 feet (17 m)	55 feet (17 m)
8	Marlborough Arrow[10]	Marlborough[10]	1969[10]	1969[10]
9	Tan Hill Donkey	Tan Hill	Unknown	1970s	75 feet (23 m)	Unknown
10	Mock white horse on Battlesbury Hill[11]	Warminster[11]	2006[11]	2006[11]

See also[edit]

• Bloemfontein, a city in South Africa where Wiltshire troops are believed to have cut the Bloemontein White Horse around 1900,^[12] resulting in "the only Wiltshire white horse, that is not in Wiltshire"^[13]
• Liddington, a village near Swindon once considered for a white horse.^[14]
• List of public art in Wiltshire

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