transport: Westbury White Horse

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The Westbury White Horse or Bratton White Horse is a hill figure on the escarpment of Salisbury Plain, approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east of Westbury in Wiltshire, England. It is the oldest of eight white horses in Wiltshire, dating at least from the 18th century. It has been restored several times, and the work may have obliterated other white horse figures on the same slope. A small early 19th-century engraving shows a horse facing in the opposite direction. There is, however, no evidence for the existence of a chalk horse at Westbury before 1742, and it was reported then to have been created within living memory. The horse is stated by the Wiltshire Victoria County History to be 163 f…

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Wiltshire Catholicism in the Early 18th Century: The Diocesan Returns of 1706. Some years ago the Rev. Gordon Huelin published an article on Catholicism in the diocese of London, based on the returns of papists (1706) then in St. Paul's Cathedral Library and now in the library of Guildhall and it may perhaps be of interest to examine the returns for another part of the country, namely Wiltshire, and see what light these documents, reinforced by data from other sources, can shed upon Catholicism in that county during the first decade of the eighteenth century.

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Oldest medical description of a near death experience (NDE), France, 18th century

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Stability of the White Horse Slopes in Wiltshire: Broad Town. Landslide occurrence is influenced by many factors, including bedrock geology, slope angle, slope aspect, and rainfall events, and threatens the historically significant chalk hill figures synonymous with Southern England. This study investigates how landslide risk varies throughout the Wiltshire White Horses region, utilising historical landslide data and a GIS-based approach. Here it is demonstrated that bedrock geology, slope angle, slope aspect, and rainfall events are all factors influencing the susceptibility of slopes to landslides which can be used to assess if slopes are at risk of landslide occurrence. Slopes which sit…

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Hackpen White Horse is a chalk hill figure of a white horse on Hackpen Hill, located below The Ridgeway on the edge of the Marlborough Downs, two miles southeast of Broad Hinton, Wiltshire, England. It is one of eight white horse hill figures located in Wiltshire. It is also known as the Broad Hinton White Horse due to its proximity to the village. Supposedly cut by local parish clerk Henry Eatwell in 1838 to commemorate the coronation of Queen Victoria, the horse is 90 feet (27 m) wide by 90 feet (27 m) high. The horse is regularly scoured and maintained.

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Marlborough White Horse, also called the Preshute White Horse, is a hill figure on Granham Hill, a fairly shallow slope of the downland above the hamlet of Preshute, southwest of Marlborough in the county of Wiltshire, England. Dating from 1804, it is one of several such white horses in Great Britain, and one of eight in Wiltshire. Many distant views of the horse are obstructed by trees, but it can be seen from parts of the town of Marlborough. One good view is from a footpath running from Preshute House to the A345 road. The figure lies some 500 metres south of Marlborough College, within 100 metres of the southeast corner of the college sports ground.

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Pewsey 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. 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, the father of Morris Marples, who later wrote about the white horse, designed it to commemorate the coronation of Ge…

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Hill Street is a street in Mayfair, London, which runs south-west, then west, from Berkeley Square to Deanery Street, a short approach way from Park Lane. It was developed from farmland in the 18th century. Travelling one block to the east and south sees a fall of about three metres, whereas in the other direction the land rises gradually across six main blocks to beyond the north of Marble Arch (see Hyde Park). Hill Street's homes gained fashionable status from the outset: grand townhouses seeing use, at first, as seasonal lettings (rentals) and/or longer-term London homes of nobility – later, of other wealthy capitalists as much. Twenty-two, approximately half of its town houses, are list…