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Numerous chalk figures have been carved into hillsides in the United Kingdom, including :-- Alton Barnes white horse, Wiltshire (1812)
- Broad Town white horse, Wiltshire (1864)
- Cerne Abbas giant, Dorset (popularly believed to be ancient, but recently dated to c. 17th century)
- Cleadon Hills white horse, Tyne and Wear (before 1887)
- old Devizes white horse, or the Snobs' horse (1845)
- new Devizes white horse (1999)
- Cherhill or Oldbury white horse, Wiltshire (1780)
- Folkestone white horse, Kent (2003)
- Hackpen or Broad Hinton or Winterbourne Bassett white horse, Wiltshire (1838?)
- Hindhead white horse, Surrey (before 1913, lost)
- Ham Hill or Inkpen white horse, Wiltshire (1865-1877)
- Kilburn White Horse, Yorkshire (1857)
- old Litlington white horse, Sussex (c.1838)
- new Litlington white horse, Sussex (1925)
- Marlborough or Preshute white horse, Wiltshire (1804)
- Mormond or Strichen, Aberdeenshire white horse, Aberdeenshire (c.1800)
- Osmington white horse, Dorset (c.1808)
- old Pewsey white horse, Wiltshire (1785)
- new Pewsey white horse, Wiltshire (1937)
- Rockley white horse, Wiltshire (discovered 1948, now lost)
- Tan Hill white horse, Wiltshire (lost)
- Uffington White Horse ( Bronze AgeThe Bronze Age is a period in a civilization's development when the most advanced metalworking has developed the techniques of smelting copper from natural outcroppings and alloys it to cast bronze. The Bronze Age is part of the Three-age system for prehi, 1400 BC to 600 BC)
- WestburyWestbury is a town and civil parish in the west of the English county of Wiltshire. Location Westbury is situated some 12 miles south east of the city of Bath and about four miles south of Trowbridge. It is an important junction point on the railway netwo or Bratton white horse, Wiltshire (before 1742)
- Long Man of WilmingtonWilmington is a village in East Sussex on the South Downs Its most famous landmark is the nearby Long Man of Wilmington which is a 230+ ft Chalk Figure In the village itself there is a 12 Century church and the village is very close to the A27 Villages in, Sussex (c. 16th century)
- Whipsnade ZooWhipsnade Wild Animal Park is a zoo located at Whipsnade, near Dunstable in Bedfordshire, England. It is owned by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and is a companion to London Zoo in Regents Park, London. The park, covers 600 acres (2. 4 kmē), and c white lion, on the Dunstable DownsDunstable Downs are part of the Chiltern Hills, in southern Bedfordshire. They are a chalk escarpment forming the north-eastern reaches of the Chilterns. At 244m, Dunstable Downs are the highest point of the East of England. Whipsnade Zoo has cut an enorm , Bedfordshire (1931)
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- English folkloreEnglish folklore is the folk tradition which has evolved in England over a number of centuries. Some English legends can be traced back to their roots, even as far as before the Roman invasion of Britain, while the origin of others is fairly uncertain or
- Anglo-Saxon mythologyThe Anglo-Saxons arrived in Britain from southern Scandinavia, the Netherlands and northern Germany, thus the Anglo-Saxon gods were originally the same gods as those in Germanic mythology and in the better-known version Norse mythology. Due to the close c
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