Chalk figures

Britain's oldest chalk hill figure, a 110-metre stylised horse cut into the downs above the Vale of White Horse.

Oxfordshire

Britain's largest chalk giant — a 55-metre club-wielding figure on the hill above Cerne Abbas, of much-argued age.

Dorset

The only English hill figure carrying a rider — King George III on horseback — cut above Weymouth in 1808.

Dorset

A giant kiwi cut into Beacon Hill in 1919 by New Zealand soldiers waiting to go home, complete with the letters NZ.

Wiltshire

A modern galloping horse cut in 2003 on Cheriton Hill, looking down over the mouth of the Channel Tunnel.

Kent

A row of regimental cap-badges cut into the down by soldiers in the First World War — the biggest and most complete group of hill figures in England.

Wiltshire

England's most northerly chalk horse, cut on Sutton Bank in 1857 and kept white with limestone chippings.

North Yorkshire

A prancing white horse cut in a single night in 1924, on Hindover Hill above the Cuckmere valley.

East Sussex

A vast recumbent lion cut into Dunstable Downs in the early 1930s to mark the zoo below — big enough to see from the air.

Bedfordshire

The northernmost Wiltshire horse, reputedly cut in 1864, clinging to a steep slope above the village.

Wiltshire

The newest Wiltshire horse, cut on Roundway Hill for the millennium in 1999 — and the only one that faces right.

Wiltshire

A 70-metre outline figure holding a staff in each hand, cut into Windover Hill; one of only two human chalk figures in Britain.

East Sussex

A trim little horse cut on Pewsey Hill in 1937 for George VI's coronation, on the site of an older lost one.

Wiltshire

A crown cut into the down by agricultural students in 1902 for Edward VII's coronation, and still lit for royal occasions.

Kent

The largest of the well-kept Wiltshire horses, cut in 1812 high on Milk Hill above the Vale of Pewsey.

Wiltshire

Wiltshire's second-oldest white horse, cut in 1780 on Cherhill Down beneath the Lansdowne Monument.

Wiltshire

A neat square-set horse cut for Queen Victoria's coronation in 1838, on Hackpen Hill just below the Ridgeway.

Wiltshire

A large chalk cross cut into the North Downs in 1922 as a memorial to the fallen of the First World War.

Kent

A small horse cut by Marlborough schoolboys in 1804, tucked onto Granham Hill above the Kennet.

Wiltshire

A chalk cross on the Downs above Shoreham, cut in 1920 in memory of the village's First World War dead.

Kent

The oldest and best known of the Wiltshire horses, cut into the down below Bratton's Iron Age ramparts and remodelled in 1778; it shows for miles across the vale.

Wiltshire

A striking cross on a triangular base, cut into Whiteleaf Hill above Princes Risborough — visible right across the Vale of Aylesbury.

Buckinghamshire