Vale of White Horse
English chalk downland
Vale of White Horse is a local government district in Oxfordshire, England, named for the prehistoric chalk figure carved into a hillside near Uffington.
The white horse, visible for miles across the vale below, dates back roughly 3,000 years.
The district includes the towns of Abingdon and Wantage: She grew up in the Vale of White Horse.
- AbingdonOxfordshire market town
- OxfordshireMidlands county in England
- BerkshireCounty containing Windsor
- Alfred the GreatNinth-century Wessex monarch
- barrowsGrave mounds or handcarts
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