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Now, Thats A Great Idea!

Written by Helen Appleton
Friday, 24 October 2008
The United Kingdom oozes History from every corner, showcasing its long and varied cultural evolution from the Stone Age to present times. Some of the country’s most flamboyant man made landmarks are the amazing White Horses that prance or gallop across hillsides and mountain slopes. There are seventeen still visible across the country, eight in Wiltshire alone. The most ancient of these striking figures appears near the village of Uffington, in Oxfordshire. It is so lifelike that it seems to be galloping across the plains. It was cut into the chalk of the hillside in 350 BC by Iron Age Celts to represent Epona, the protectress of horses, and measured 114 metres in length. In 1857 at Kilburn, in Yorkshire, the local schoolmaster, Thomas Taylor, was so inspired by the Uffington White Horse, that he rounded up thirty helpers including his students, to cut out their own White Horse on a hillside nearby. It is 96 metres long and nearly 70 metres high and is visible for many kilometres across the plain of York. To celebrate the completion of the work, the locals roasted two bullocks and consumed 455 litres of beer. They hold an annual party as a fundraiser for the upkeep of their White Horse. The most recent White Horse is near Devizes, in Southern England. It was cut in September 1999, by volunteers in just over a month, and to celebrate the Millenium, they added a time capsule. Beaudesert is the Shire of the Horse situated in S.E. Queensland, which boasts the second highest percentage of horse ownership per capita in the world. It is also surrounded by hills and mountains, all screaming out for magnificent white steeds bounding across their slopes. We have thousands of schoolchildren in Beaudesertshire who surely would like nothing more than to slave away in the hot sun for a few weeks, to help boost tourism, and create a lasting monument to our Shire’s equine heritage!