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White Horse Hill has that it has captured man’s imagination
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always been a part of for thousands of years. It gives me a feeling
Ridgeway, the oldest track in Europe,
my life. We lived in of belonging to the landscape.
runs just behind. I love the feeling that
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Uffington when I was The luxury of being able to look out of
hundreds of generations have travelled
a child and now I have our bedroom window at White Horse Hill
the Ridgeway. History unfurls along
come back to live here is an extraordinary privilege. All through
it – barrows, earthworks, cromlechs.
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with my husband. the day the light falls differently on the
I feel humbled by all that.
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Whenever I’m travelling home to undulating curves of the manger, the
Candida’s new book Unwrecked England
Uffington I find the first distant view of scooped out valley below the horse.
(£25, Oldie Publications) celebrates 100 of
the hill so reassuring. The white horse Sometimes in the early mornings a mist
her favourite places in England.
carved into the chalk with its spindly legs hangs. I feel completely uplifted seeing
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galloping across the soft curve of down is this view every day.
A minor road off the B4507 leads to a car

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art at its most sublime. I love the fact that I’m too lazy to walk up on to the downs park from which the site can be explored.
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its origin remains a mystery. I am moved but am lucky enough to have a horse called
Visit nationaltrust.org.uk.
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