Westbury White Horse
The Westbury White Horse or Bratton White Horse is a hill figure on the escarpment of Salisbury Plain, approximately 1.5 mi east of Westbury in Wiltshire, England.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: hill figure in England
- Also known as: “Bratton White Horse”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Bratton Castle and Westbury railway station.
Bratton Castle
Archaeological site
Photo: Phil Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bratton Castle is a bivallate Iron Age built 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. Bratton Castle is situated 890 feet east of Westbury White Horse.
Westbury railway station
Railway station
Photo: Kicior99, Public domain.
Westbury railway station serves the market town of Westbury, in Wiltshire, England. The station is managed by Great Western Railway. The station is a major junction, serving the Reading to Taunton line with services to and from Penzance and London Paddington… Westbury railway station is situated 2½ miles west of Westbury White Horse.
All Saints’ Church, Westbury
Church
Photo: Bellminsterboy, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Church of All Saints is the main Church of England parish church in Westbury, Wiltshire, England. There has been a church on the site since Saxon times, and the current church, largely rebuilt around 1437, is a Grade I listed building. All Saints’ Church, Westbury is situated 1½ miles west of Westbury White Horse.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bratton and Westbury.
Bratton
Village
Photo: My another account, Public domain.
Bratton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire, about 2.5 miles east of Westbury. The village lies under the northern slope of Salisbury Plain, on the B3098 Westbury – Market Lavington road.
Westbury
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Westbury is a market town and civil parish in west Wiltshire, England. The town lies below the northwestern edge of Salisbury Plain, about 4 miles south of Trowbridge and a similar distance north of Warminster. Westbury is situated 1½ miles west of Westbury White Horse.
Yarnbrook
Village
Photo: Maurice Pullin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Yarnbrook is a large hamlet in Wiltshire, England, between the towns of Westbury and Trowbridge. Most of the settlement lies in the civil parish of North Bradley, the rest in West Ashton. Yarnbrook is situated 3 miles northwest of Westbury White Horse.
Westbury White Horse
- Categories: horse hill figure, geoglyph, tourism, archaeological site, and historic site
- Location: Bratton, Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.26361° or 51° 15′ 49″ northLongitude
-2.14704° or 2° 8′ 49″ westOpen location code
9C3V7V73+C5OpenStreetMap ID
way 162258889OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=geoglyphOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionWikidata ID
Q523097
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Norwegian Bokmål—“Westbury White Horse” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Westburyko zaldi zuria”
- Chinese: “西貝利白馬”
- Chinese: “韦斯特伯里白马”
- Dutch: “Westbury White Horse”
- French: “Cheval blanc de Westbury”
- German: “Westbury White Horse”
- Hungarian: “Westburyi fehér ló”
- Japanese: “ウェストベリー・ホワイトホース”
- Japanese: “ウエストベリー・ホワイトホース”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Den hvite hest i Westbury”
- Norwegian: “Den hvite hest i Westbury”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include White Horse and Winkland’s Down.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Westbury White Horse”. Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.