No, the White Horse is not a pub, nor an actual living animal, it is a figure carved on an English hillside. When I say a figure, I actually mean there are several but the one I saw was the White Horse of Uffington, in Oxfordshire.
My dear friend Celia took me there, and we climbed up the hillside.
The figure is about 3,000 years old; it is cut into the chalky hillside and is a stylised horse, or maybe dragon. There are other white horses in Britain, but Uffington is the oldest.
Because it is so big, we could not see it properly from close to, but being close to we appreciated how huge it was and what technical and engineering skill the Bronze Age designers and workers had. What vision, what art! The community must have been wealthy and secure in order for people to be spared from labouring to provide food and to make this massive figure.
Lois Elsden 
This is really interesting. I had never heard of this drawing before, thank you for sharing.
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Google it, Jeremy and you’ll find much better pictures than mine – and more information about the other hill figures, including the Cerne Abbas Giant you have heard of.
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I will check it out. Thank you for the tip. 🙂
And, as always, I really enjoy your photographs.
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Thanks!
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Amazing.
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