The oldest of all the chalk figures — a spare, galloping outline cut into the downs around 3,000 years ago.
Open accessNational Trust land — free to wander
Britain’s oldest chalk hill figure gallops across the downs above the Vale of White Horse, a stylised horse about 110 metres long and abstract enough that its flowing lines barely read as a horse from the ground. Dating places it in the late Bronze Age, roughly 3,000 years old and far older than any other chalk figure in England. It’s open-access National Trust downland, kept scoured as generations of local people did before, with a car park off the B4507 and a short walk up from the village of Uffington — though it shows best from the Vale below or from the air. It lies just under the Iron Age ramparts of Uffington Castle, with the Ridgeway along the crest and Wayland’s Smithy west along it.
