Westbury White Horse – 16.4.17
Westbury White Horse – A 5.9 mile walk starting and ending at the White Horse car park.
The walk started from the Westbury White Horse car park and went past the old chalk quarry and skirted Imber Range – no firing today! The mostly level walk from high ground gave wonderful long distance views. Paragliders and kite flyers were taking advantage of the wind. Animal highlights included a Peregrine Falcon, skylarks, very woolly brown sheep and shaggy ponies – and, of course, the White Horse. An avenue of Beech trees provided the ideal setting for coffee and Easter Eggs!
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undulating fields
An avenue of beech trees
A marriage proposal carved in a tree
On the other side is carved ‘Sara – wil you marry me?’
woolly brown and white sheep
A paraglider floating over the white horse
Views for miles
The Westbury White Horse
The Westbury or Bratton White Horse is a hill figure on the escarpment of Salisbury Plain, approximately 1.5 mi (2.4 km) east of Westbury in Wiltshire, England. Located on the edge of Bratton Downs and lying just below an Iron Age hill fort, it is the oldest of several white horses carved in Wiltshire.
Very shaggy ponies
Bratton Camp
Bratton Castle (also known as Bratton Camp) is a bivallate Iron Age hill fort on Bratton Down, at the western edge of the Salisbury Plain escarpment. The hill fort comprises two circuits of ditch and bank which together enclose a pentagonal area of 9.3 hectares (23 acres).
Great pictures. I found the carving on the tree very intriguing and it’s really lovely to see the flower speckled grass. It’s been a colourful spring and you have captured some of that in your images. Thanks.