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Ella Bacon (11), who lives in Lechlade and currently attends St Lawrence’s Primary School, has now realised her dream of swimming with dolphins. Last year, Ella helped to boost the fundraising efforts ...
During the Second World War, the Darent Valley was Britain’s most-bombed parish. German pilots flew towards East London over Kent. If they didn’t drop all their bombs, they would turn around and ...
She wove the colours of the flowers and grasses around the Uffington White Horse through her enigmatic poem Auras of the Ridgeway. Jessica said her award-winning photo was taken soon after a ...
Berkshire also lost the iconic White Horse monument in Uffington to Oxfordshire as well. The White Horse is used as an emblem by The Ridgeway Primary School in Whitley and the Berkshire Yeomanry of ...
Berkshire used to be a bigger county than it is currently, stretching from Faringdon in the west to Windsor in the east. It existed in this form for hundreds of years. But the county was clipped ...
A year-long restoration project to Britain’s oldest chalk figure, the Bronze Age Uffington White Horse in Oxfordshire, is now complete. Aerial studies showed that some parts of the 3,000-year-old ...
You can get in touch with Aristos by emailing [email protected]. Languages: English, Spanish The Uffington White Horse was carved into a chalk hill around 3,000 years ago in what is now ...
Work last year revealed the neck and head of the 3,000-year-old Uffington White Horse in Oxfordshire had narrowed to less than half of its typical size. Archaeologists from the National Trust and ...
White Horse Hill in Uffington is very well-known and is the oldest hill figure in Britain, dating to the Bronze Age approximately 3000 years ago. The figure of the chalk horse is enormous (374 feet ...
Some were cut in the last few hundred years as symbols for towns or regiments, but a few are prehistoric, including the Uffington White Horse, which is more than 3,000 years old. The Cerne Giant ...
He points out that it possesses no monuments of outstanding importance—only two, the White Horse of Uffington and Wayland's Smithy, are widely known—and there are no ancient sites of ...