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	Brigantes Nation Uffington
		Uffington Horse is the largest hill figure in Britain, it is 110m long and 40m high.
		The horse is on the northwestern side of the Ridgeway, close by and is built on a Bronze AGe cultivation terrace.
		A bronze age long barrow lies between the horse and Uffington Castle, a modified hill - Dragon Hill is also related to the white horse, although it's purpose is not known.
	brigantesnation.com /SiteResearch/HillFigures/Uffington/Uffington.htm (283 words)

	Encyclopedia: Uffington White Horse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Uffington White Horse is a highly stylised hillfigure, 374 feet (110m) long, cut out of the turf on the upper slopes of Uffington Castle, an Iron Age hill fort near The Ridgeway, in southern England.
		The horse is thought to represent a tribal symbol perhaps connected with the builders of Uffington Castle.
		Uffington Castle is all that remains of an early iron Age hill fort in Oxfordshire, England.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Uffington-White-Horse (1721 words)

	Uffington White Horse -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A more modern theory suggests that the stylised (Solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times) horse figure acted as a sign to people passing on The Ridgeway advertising horses being sold or catered for at the neighboring Uffington Castle (or a settlement that may have existed prior to the castle with the mounds visible today).
		The cutting exposes the underlying (A piece of chalk (or similar substance) used for writing on flboards or other surfaces) chalk making the (Solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times) horse a striking figure.
		The design of the Uffington Horse was used as the album cover of the 1982 album English Settlement by English rock group (Street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine) XTC, who come from the nearby town of (additional info and facts about Swindon) Swindon.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/u/uf/uffington_white_horse.htm (439 words)

	Uffington White Horse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The White Horse of Uffington is one of the most impressive sites close to the ancient Ridgeway path, which traverses the steep chalk downs brooding over the Vale of the White Horse.
		The White Horse of Uffington, with its elegant lines of white chalk bedrock, is thought to be the oldest hill figure in Britain.
		The focus of the games was in the enclosed earthen banks of Uffington Castle an Iron Age hill fort, which the White Horse seems to be galloping to when viewed from the air.
	www.nifty-fifties.com /Vacations/2002/UffingtonWhiteHorse.htm (669 words)

	SwindonWeb - Leisure Guide - Places to Go, Things to Do
		While the Wiltshire horses are far more anatomically accurate than the one at Uffington, the latter captures the beauty and grace of a horse in motion perfectly, making this huge 'painting' not just a mere study of the animal, but a genuine work of art.
		Compared with Uffington's (see picture, right), the others are relatively modern and were cut merely for decoration and commemoration within the last 220 years.
		It's no wonder, then, that Uffington inspired the proliferation of a number of white horses in Wiltshire in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries where the Marlborough Downs and the surrounding area offered the perfect geography for a whole new breed of equine figures.
	www.swindonweb.com /leis/plachors0.htm (1736 words)

	Uffington White Horse
		The mysterious White Horse is carved into the chalk hillside above the vilage of Uffington.
		Various interpretations of the stylised carvings are possible; some believe that it might be a dragon rather than a horse.
		On the crown of the hill above the horse is the hill fort of Uffington Castle.
	www.britainexpress.com /counties/oxfordshire/ancient/uffington.htm (566 words)

	Uffington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the mid nineteenth century, North America was flooded with Irish immigrants, desperately fleeing the devastating effects of the Irish Potato Famine.
		Unfortunately, the area surrounding Uffington proved to be less than successful for farming.
		Although a few people continue to live in Uffington, there are no businesses to speak of and the farmland around the community has grandually turned to bush.
	www.ghosttownpix.com /ontario/towns/uffing.shtml (229 words)

	The Ridgeway
		The highest concentration is around Uffington, with Uffington White Horse, Uffington Castle, and Wayland's Smithy.
		Uffington Castle is an earthwork close to the White Horse.
		Uffington White Horse is about three thousand years old, making it by far the oldest of Britain's chalk hill figures as well as the most beautiful and -- since it can only be viewed properly from a helicopter -- mysterious.
	www.hoary.org /snaps/engl/ridg.html (927 words)

	Uffington White Horse, Waylands Smithy & the Ridgeway
		The White Horse at Uffington is one the most famous hill figures in Britain and has recently been dated to at least the Iron Age (around 500 BC) but it could well be much older.
		A marvellous example of a Bronze Age cemetery to the south of Uffington near the village of Lambourn beside the minor road to Kingston Lisle.
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	freespace.virgin.net /ancient.ways/uffingto.htm (983 words)

	Berkshire History: Uffington Castle
		Uffington Castle sits on the very top of White Horse Hill, just to the south of the White Horse itself.
		Despite its obvious categorisation as an ‘Iron Age Hillfort,’ recent excavations have shown that, like the horse and nearby settlements on Ram’s Hill (Uffington) and Tower Hill (Ashbury), it was originally constructed in the late Bronze Age, probably in the eighth or seventh century bc.
		The Uffington Castle we recognise today is an eight-acre double walled hillfort which once had timber box-ramparts that were revetted with sarsen stones at a later period.
	www.berkshirehistory.com /castles/uffington_castle_hillfort.html (481 words)

	Wiltshire White Horses: The Uffington white horse
		The Uffington white horse, one of only four that face to the right, is high on an escarpment of the Berkshire Downs below Whitehorse Hill, a mile and a half south of the village of Uffington, and it looks out over the Vale of the White Horse.
		Unlike the solid and more or less naturalistic figures of the other horses, the Uffington white horse is formed from stylized curving lines some ten feet or less wide, and its length of around 365 feet makes it over twice as long as the longest of the Wiltshire horses.
		The horse-goddess Epona was worshipped by the Celts in Gaul, and she had a counterpart in Britain, Rhiannon, so the Uffington white horse may have been cut by adherents of a cult of the horse-goddess.
	wiltshirewhitehorses.org.uk /uffington.html (652 words)

	Tom Brown's School Museum - Thomas Hughes
		His grandmother, Mary Ann (nee) Watts, lived in Uffington Rectory before they had married as her father, grandfather and great-grandfather had all held the living of Uffington.
		It was during 1855 that Thomas Hughes revisited Uffington and the White Horse Hill and began work on "Tom Brown's School Days" for the benefit of their oldest son, Maurice, who was approaching public school age.
		All of the exhibits have been donated to the Museum, mostly by residents of the villages of Uffington, Woolstone and Baulking who are keen to have the history of the area preserved.
	www.geocities.com /Paris/Rue/1896/hughes.html (1889 words)

	Tom Brown's School Museum - Sir John Betjeman
		Their son, Paul, was born in Uffington in 1937.
		The Betjemans returned to Uffington in the Autumn of 1943 and John Betjeman resumed his job with the Ministry of Information.
		Although smaller than Uffington, it provided the same type of village life: the church, bell ringing and village socials.
	www.geocities.com /Paris/Rue/1896/betjeman.html (601 words)

	Uffington House, Rugby, Tennessee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		An architect's drawing of Uffington House, currently the subject of a major restoration programme.
		Uffington House is part of the historic town of
		She knew someone who was alive at the time of the French Revolution and who quite possibly remembered the day when news of a great naval victory, the battle of Trafalgar (1805), spread through every town and village in England.
	www.gmilne.demon.co.uk /uffton.htm (163 words)

	In Search of The White Horse of Uffington
		Take a reading of 115 degrees and take 17 steps in that direction which takes you off the trail uphill, just to the left of a bunch of branches that are all in a group pointing the same way.
		The White Horse of Uffington is cut into the slopes of a 856 feet high hill.
		The Uffington Horse has survived the centuries because of the periodic cleaning of it.
	www.chuckstraub.com /Letterboxing/whitehorse.htm (987 words)

	Legends of Berkshire: Royal St. George
		The local King who had taken power in Uffington after Uther’s death had thought that the Emperor’s tomb would bring wealth to his kingdom through the visits of pilgrims; but the monument was nothing but a blight on his people.
		So the King of Uffington had ordered that the dragon be fed each day with a plump sheep from one of the local farms.
		Sad was the day when the first child of Uffington had been set forth, tied to the stake, for the dragon to devour; but the torment brought to the townsmen had not ended there.
	www.britannia.com /history/legend/berks/geouff01.html (1071 words)

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		The village of Uffington lies on the edge of the Vale of the White Horse, just north of the Berkshire Downs.
		Overlooking the village is the famous White Horse, a marvellous chalk figure which was cut into the hillside 3000 years ago.
		The whole area is filled with historic interest and information on the church and museum, the White Horse and all local historic sites including the nearby Ridgeway Path, Uffington Castle, Dragon Hill, Wayland's Smithy and Ashdown House can be found here.
	unet.members.beeb.net (147 words)

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		I once met a lady called Ann here, who said she was the daughter of Uffington's flsmith, then proceded to relate tales of ghostly battles she heard in the hillfort, of a cloud which followed her home, and psychically touched a chap away on Dragon Hill.
		A lovely addition to the tales of Wayland's Smithy half a mile down the Ridgeway, although I was left with the impression that I had been talking with an urban myth.
		The Uffington White Horse, overlooking the northern vale to which it lends its name, has been a landmark for centuries.
	www.mucusart.co.uk /uffington.htm (401 words)

	GENUKI: Uffington, Shropshire
		The village is situated on the Shrewsbury canal and the river Severn.
		Photograph of Haughmond Abbey, and Haughmond Abbey Chapter House, Uffington, from Peter and Janet Kirk.
		The transcription of the section for Uffington from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/eng/SAL/Uffington (205 words)

	MACP: Pictures of ancient sites in Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Although the date of its first carving is unknown, it is at least 2000 years old, thus being the oldest of all the white horses in England.
		The Uffington figure is about 111 metres long, and its shape (which, according to a sign nearby, seems to be thinner than originally) can only be seen properly from the air.
		The Uffington Castle (April 1998) is on the hilltop at a short distance from the horse.
	www.dcs.shef.ac.uk /~miguel/ancient.html (4098 words)

	Uffington White Horse
		The Uffington white horse is undoubtedly Britain’s oldest and most famous hill figure, which has recently been dated at 3000 years old by the Oxford Archeological Unit.
		Others believe that it commemorates Alfred’s victory over the Danes in 861 AD or that it was created in the seventh century by Hengist in the image of a horse on his standard, however the recent scientific data upon its age seem to discount these more modern theories.
		Several Iron age coins bearing representations of horses very similar to the Uffington horse have been found and would support the theory of the horse being from an earlier period than the seventh or eight centuries.
	www.hows.org.uk /personal/hillfigs/uff/uffing.htm (707 words)

	Roger MANNERS of Uffington (Esq.)
		He was brought to Uffington when he died, to be buried in Uffington Church in the tomb which, as he stated in his will, he had already caused to be set up in memory of himself and his youngest brother, Oliver, who had died in 1563.
		A later letter from Uffington shows the companionship of the two, and also that they had a common interest in horses: George was a better galloper than his father had ever been—'and that I am fittest to teach him.
		Roger Manners that it was the Queen’s pleasure, she hoped her daughter would conduct herself in a manner that would be pleasing, and that those who were wise would remember the estate of a fatherless maid and give her the advice most needful.
	www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/RogerMannersofUffington(Esq.).htm (8321 words)

	Berkshire Archaeology: The Uffington White Horse, Part 1
		The White Horse at Uffington is the best known and, by far, the oldest of the white horse hill-figures to be seen around Britain.
		No doubt they were inspired by the Uffington creature whose existence is first recorded in the cartulary of Abingdon Abbey, dating from King Henry II’s reign.
		Although Lysons’ ‘Britannia’ indicates that it once wore a saddle and, earlier in 1757, a letter from a Dr Richard Pococke, perhaps mistakenly, referred to the how "green sod remains to fill the body" as if the horse’s belly was also once delineated.
	www.berkshirehistory.com /archaeology/white_horse.html (410 words)

	Oxford Archaeology - Uffington White Horse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Investigations at White Horse Hill Uffington, 1989-95 and Tower Hill Ashbury, 1993-4.
		The Uffington White Horse is an icon of the English landscape and its origins have been the subject of debate for centuries.
		The hoard of bronze axes and ornaments, was found to have been placed near the entrance to a roundhouse within a larger unenclosed settlement of broadly contemporaneous date to the Horse and hillfort.
	www.oxfordarch.co.uk /pages/whitehorse_feature.htm (607 words)

	Uffington White Horse Show - About the White Horse Show
		Now in its 34th year, the Uffington White Horse Show has developed a winning formula, making it the most popular country show for miles around.
		Uffington may be a small village, but we pride ourselves on running a highly professional show, which is the envy of many commercial organisations.
		There are some exciting new attractions too for 2005: they will include a flying display by the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, a top military band and a pageant to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the End of World War II.
	www.whitehorseshow.co.uk (250 words)

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