Other sights in WiltshireWiltshire, England

A flight of 29 locks climbing 237 feet in two miles on the Kennet and Avon Canal at Devizes, a triumph of Georgian engineering.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Great 14th-century barn of Shaftesbury Abbey's farm at Barton, 51 metres long, its stone-slate roof carried on massive timber crucks.

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

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

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

One of Wiltshire's highest downs near Pewsey, crowned by an ancient enclosure with sweeping views over the Vale of Pewsey.

National Trust chalk down south-east of Salisbury topped by the Pepperbox, a hexagonal 1606 folly tower, with wide views over the Avon valley.

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.

Museum of Avebury's prehistoric finds, named for the marmalade heir who excavated the stone circle and re-erected many of its stones in the 1930s.

Georgian brick dovecote in the Avon valley village of Netheravon, its walls still lined inside with hundreds of nesting boxes for pigeons.