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Pewsey White Horse
51°19′16.5″N1°45′23.5″W / 51.321250°N 1.756528°W / 51.321250; -1.756528Pewsey White Horse is a hill figure of a white horse near the village of Pewsey, Wiltshire, England. Cut of chalk in 1937, it replaces an earlier horse that had disappeared under the grass and is one of eight remaining white horses in Wiltshire. It measures 66’ by 45’, making it the smallest of the eight canonical white horses in Wiltshire.[1]
When Pewsey White Horse was cut it was the seventh or eighth White Horse in Wiltshire (the confusion arising as Rockley White Horse was unknown until 1948) and the first of the 20th century. It was also one of the smallest. George Marples designed the white horse to commemorate the coronation of George VI, and was inspired by other white horses in Wiltshire.
The horse is a prominent landmark in Pewsey, and today it is maintained and scoured by the Pewsey 6X Club, who work under the name Pewsey Horse Restoration Group. Wiltshirewhitehorses.org.uk consider it to be a "well-proportioned representation of the real animal."[2] The white horse also features on the town flag of Pewsey, whose registration notes describe the horse as "iconic".[3] Barry Leighton of the Swindon Advertiser describes the horse as standing in a "care-free trotting stance."[4] The Gazette and Herald have referred to the horse as "one of Pewsey's proudest monuments."[5]
^"Measurements". Wiltshire White Horses. Archived from the original on 30 December 2017. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
^"The new Pewsey white horse". Wiltshire White Horses. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
^Pewsey, Wiltshire - The Flag Institute
^Leighton, Barry (6 August 2013). "The hills have eyes... and a spear". Swindon Advertiser. Retrieved 8 May 2017.
^"Pewsey's White Horse given summertime makeover". Gazette and Herald. 11 July 2017. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
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