This is a popular tourist spot for visitors, with its car parks and in summer, an ice cream van. The White Horse is not visible from the route – indeed it is seen to best advantage from the vale below. No one knows when, or how, this beautifully proportioned monument was created, and it is one of numerous historic mysteries found along this section of Ridgeway. Below the Horse, a small hill, Dragon Hill, is the reputed site of the slaying of the Dragon by Saint George. Uffington Castle is the name given to the extensive remains of an Iron Age hill fort, whose ditches and ramparts dominate the top of Whitehorse .

Thomas Hughes, author of Tom Brown’s Schooldays was born here (69).