page_title: Hackpen White Horse
section_title: Origins and early history
hierarchical_section_title: Hackpen White Horse / Origins and early history
caption_attribution_description: English: Queen Victoria at her coronation.
context_page_description: Hackpen White Horse is a chalk hill figure of a white horse on Hackpen Hill, located below The Ridgeway on the edge of the Marlborough Downs, two miles south east of Broad Hinton, Wiltshire, England. It is one of nine white horse hill figures located in Wiltshire. It is also known as the Broad Hinton White Horse due to its near location to Broad Hinton. Supposedly cut by local parish clerk Henry Eatwell in 1838 to commemorate the coronation of Queen Victoria, the horse is 90 square feet. The horse is regularly scoured and maintained.
context_section_description: The origin of the horse is uncertain, and is sometimes said to be the only 19th century white horse to have little of its history known. It is generally regarded that the horse was cut in 1838 by Henry Eatwell, a parish clerk of Broad Hinton, assisted by a local pub landlord. It is said to commemorate the coronation of Queen Victoria.
caption: The horse is said to commemorate the coronation of Queen Victoria.
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