3632 x 5447 px | 30,8 x 46,1 cm | 12,1 x 18,2 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
2014
Lieu:
Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, England, UK
Informations supplémentaires:
Broad Town is three miles south of Wootton Bassett on the Marlborough road, and the white horse is in a depression on a steep slope half a mile north east of the village. It is on land which once belonged to Little Town Farm. According to Rev. Plenderleath, writing in 1885, it was cut in 1864 by a William Simmonds, who held the farm then. Simmonds claimed later that it had been his intention to enlarge the horse gradually over the years, but he had to give up the farm and so did not have the opportunity. It is difficult to imagine exactly what he had in mind; take a drawing of a horse and expand it by enlarging the outline, and the more one enlarges it the less the result resembles the original.
