Hackpen White Horse

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 south east of Broad Hinton, Wiltshire, England.

[2] It is generally regarded that the horse was cut in 1838 by Henry Eatwell, a parish clerk of Broad Hinton, assisted by a local pub landlord.

[1] Because the hill is gentle, the horse is partly banked up and slightly raised from the surrounding grass to make it more easily visible.

[3] The expression "as different as chalk and cheese" is sometimes believed to refer to the land divided by Hackpen Hill.

He later flew David Brewer over the area to photograph the village of Broad Hinton and the white horse for brewers's book Images of a Wiltshire Downland Village: Broad Hinton and Uffcott.

[9] The horse has also featured in several artworks, including a stained glass window made by Berry Stained Glass,[10] Benoit Philppe's The Hackpen White Horse oil on canvas painting,[11] and a silver necklace created in 2015 by Devizes-based jeweller Daniel Pike.