The Uffington White Horse is thought to be a late Bronze Age/early Iron Age chalk figure, the only one of the many local chalk horses to date from prehistory rather than the 19th century. it resembles the horses depicted on Iron Age coins and the domestication of the horse for direct riding (rather than pulling carts) around this time.
It lies only metres away from the circular ditch which is all that remains of "Uffington Castle", an Iron Age Hill Fort.
Both landmarks are adjacent to the Ridgeway path and are free to enter. They are managed by English Heritage who provide a public car park for visitors a short distance downhill of the site, with a few spaces for blue badge holders much closer, on the road immediately below the White Horse.
The White Horse can actually be seen in the landscape better from a car parked across the valley than by standing right next to it, as the entire shape can be made out at once!
There is a children's historical story about the Uffington White Horse by Rosemary Sutcliff (who famously also wrote "The Eagle of the Ninth"). it is called "Sun Horse, Moon Horse".
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