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Welcome to the hill figure homepage the only site with all the hillfigures of the UK.

These pages are devoted to hillfigures which are known by many names, chalk hillfigures, chalk figures, hillfigures, hill figure, hill figures or sometimes white horses or chalk horses as the majority are horses, they are more generically known as geoglyphs.

I have had to move my webpages so this might not be the page you require, this is the top level index page, use the navbar to the left to find the correct page.


Temporary Remembrance Hillfigure

A temporary addition to the Fovant Badges.

New Discovery - Reginald Mitchell Mounments

Reginald Mitchell Mounments

More Here

New Discovery - Welsh Dragon and English Lion

A recent construction on the edge of Wales at Shotwick Bridge on the A550/A548 Junction

SJ 341712

Welsh Dragon
Lion

More Here


Exhibition - Devizes Wiltshire

An excellent exhibition on hillfigures is currently on at the Wiltshire Heritage Museum in Devizes

Full details Here


This book can be purchased from this website

Dr Mark Hows (2006) The Hillfigures of Kent 1st edn.

some full colour photographs.

First Edition Book Cover

Available from this website £1.50 inc p&p

E-Mail Me for more details


Talks

I will happily give evening talks on any aspect of hillfigures, no charge just travel expense
re-imbursement E-Mail Me for more details and availablilty.


An exciting new project to carry out a detailed survey of the Nazca lines.

www.airshipnazca.com


Hillfigure Discoveries / Latest

New Hillfigure - the biggest yet!

A massive project of over 50 figures proposed at Rainham, Essex on a former landfill tip by the side of the Thames.

Artist Impression Mock Up


Does anyone know anything about the Blue Peter Hillfigures are they real or computer generated?

Blue Peter LogoBlue Peter Logo

Thanks to the sender of these photo's

Hillfigures in the news again, this time a mock up using sheets on the side of the M3 near Basingstoke. It was previously used near the M62 in Bradford. Its message is to promote Lamb.

Sheep Sheep

Awaiting permission from the BBC to use these pictures

Recent Controversy about adorning / desecration some of our Hillfigures

Long Man / Woman of Wilmington

What Not to Wear

Photo with kind permission of Sussex Express Newspapers

More pics here

Homer Meets the Cerne Abbas Giant

Homer

waiting for permission to use the photo from the BBC

But he is not the first

Lynx Effect!

Enough trouble so he is on his bike

On yer Bike

Thanks to Ian James for the last two pics

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Check out the new hillfigure discoveries on the news page

Sidmouth Donkey

Sidmouth Donkey

Can you help with any information on the following figures

The Fox

Thanks to Pepijn Schmitz for this photo, of a replica Uffington Horse from an Australian Model Village

Reproduction

the original can be found here


Loss of the Badges

Of the 12 badges which are at Fovant, Sutton Mandeville and Compton Chamberlayne it has been decided that only seven of the badges will be maintained. One further that of the Royal Signal Badge is the responsibility of the 11th Signal Regiment. The YMCA, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 7th Batt. City of London Regiment and the map of Austraila are to be allowed to grass over. This decision has been made by the Fovant Badges Society due to lack of finance to upkeep these badges as they are the most in need of repair, within a few years they will be no more.

Disappearing YMCA Badge Disappearing Royal Warks Badge


Find out about the author and how you can help the Hillfigure Homepage Here.


Below are Points of Interest (POI) files for use with a Tom Tom GPS system. The ASC file is the text file with the data in converted to Long/Lat, the OV2 file is what has to be downloaded to the GPS and the BMP file is the image that a GPS displays on screen

To download right click on the link and select save target as

Hill Figures.ov2
Hill Figures.asc
Hill Figures.bmp

Many Thanks to Dave Leach for his help in creating these GPS files

Google Earth waypoints for hillfigures and a few related figures. Note not all hillfigures are on the file as they are not yet available on google earth.

Hillfigures.kmz


Background

Scattered throughout southern England are currently some 57 hill figures (and maybe more with some unconfirmed figures and sometimes an exciting discovery) cut into the abundant chalk downlands, the most famous of these is the White horse of Uffington on the Berkshire downs. There are also three hill figures in the north, one in Yorkshire and two figures cut into quartz in Aberdeenshire. Unfortunately another 57 hill figures now lost (there may be more) including the most unusual figures the Red horses of Tysoe cut into the red loam soil of Warwickshire. Four of these figures can just about be seen but are in danger of being lost forever.

Hill figures are limited to the UK apart from a few exceptions mainly colonial countries, however similar figures are found all over the world from Africa to the Americas.

The area of greatest interest is Wiltshire, where there are some eight visible horses (another two have long since disappeared), and the more modern military badges at Fovant Down, the Bulford Kiwi and the now almost lost Laverstock Panda. The Inkpen horse (no longer visible) and the Uffington horse are also very close to the Wiltshire county boundary making this region the most important for Hill figures. They range in age the oldest being the 3000 year old Uffington white horse and the youngest being the Folkestone Horse (2003).

Key to All Maps
BV Best View
GV Good View
P Parking
FP Footpath

Position of the Hill Figures of the UK.

Position of the Hill Figures of the UK


If you have any information on Hill figures, or would like any more information E-Mail Me

Please remember do not walk on the figures, and follow the countryside code, I am happy to offer visit advice

You can buy the entire Hillfigure Homepage on CD Rom for £10 inc P&P (UK) foreign postage at cost E-Mail Me

This page and its subsections are the property of Dr Mark Hows and the respective groups and individuals so mentioned, unless stated otherwise. None of this information can be used without permission. © Dr Mark Hows 2006

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