Wiltshire White Horse

Took my Mum to Avebury for the day. Avebury always astounds me as the standing stones are so numerous, so near and so huge. However I decided to blip the Hackpen White Horse. This horse is near the Ridgeway on the edge of the Marlborough Downs two miles south east of Broad Hinton village on Hackpen Hill where the Wootton Bassett to Marlborough road zigzags up the hill.
It may have been cut in 1838 by a Henry Eatwell a Broad Hinton parish clerk ( beware Cluttonali!), perhaps with the assistance of the landlord of a local pub to commemorate the coronation of Queen Victoria.
The only really old horse is the one at Uffington probably 3,000 years old . There are 13 white horses in Wiltshire but only 8 remain visible. - all the others are probably about 300 years old.
This horse was last cleaned in February 2012 and this is an annual cleaning event.
Beautiful weather and Mum enjoyed her outing eating red lentil and pepper soup at Avebury for her lunch!