Marlborough White Horse

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.

[2] The smallest such horse in Wiltshire, the Marlborough horse was cut in 1804 by boys at Mr Greasley's Academy, also called the High Street Academy,[3] a school in Marlborough High Street which occupied the building now The Ivy House Hotel.

The horse was designed and marked out on the hill by a boy called William Canning, whose family owned the Manor House at Ogbourne St George.

It was restored again in September 2001, when it was re-chalked with pure chalk mixed with water and applied with a stiff brush, but by the late summer of 2002 it already had grass growing on much of its surface.

[2] A verse of the Marlborough College school song refers to the horse: And when to Marlborough old and worn we shall creep back like ghosts,And see youngsters yet unborn run in between the posts,Ah, then we'll cry, thank God, my lads, the Kennett's running still,And see, the old White Horse still pads up there on Granham Hill.