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Kilburn White Horse (North Yorkshire)

Description: Kilburn / North Yorkshire / England / A hill figure in the form of a horse; it is 318 feet long by 220 ft high and ... more

Kilburn White Horse (North Yorkshire) ... covers about 1.6 acres.

Newest Review: ... that the schoolmaster, John Hodgson created the Kilburn White Horse with the help of his pupils but credit is usually given to a local man called Thomas Taylor and a plaque erected in 1925 verifies this with an inscription that reads: "This figure was cut in 1857 on the initiative of Thomas Taylor, a native of Kilburn. In 1925 a restoration fund was subscribed by the readers of the ... more

... Yorkshire Evening Post and the residue of £100 was invested to provide for the triennial grooming of the figure." Despite the shocking revelation that this was a modern man made figure I was still intrigued enough to want to pay it a visit and I was no...more

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Kilburn White Horse (North Yorkshire): The White Horse on the North York Moors (894 words)
by - written on 01/01/09 (Very useful, 487 readings)
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For many years my brother lived in Wiltshire under the shadow of a white horse carved into the limestone hillside above Westbury. I was always fascinated by this figure so when I discovered that there was a similar white horse in North Yorkshire within a day trip of where I live it became a place that I wanted to see. There are many examples of figures of horses cut into the landscape in England but in northern England they are quite rare and the one at Kilburn in North Yorkshire is the most northerly such example in Britain. The practice of carving white horses and occasionally other figures into the landscape dates back to prehistoric times, the reasons ... Read the complete review