White Horse Hill
Early-attested site in the Parish of Uffington
Historical Forms
- mons ubi ad album equum scanditur, locus qui uulgo mons albi equi nuncupatur a.1170 ClaudiusCix c.1200
- Whytehorse 1322 Ipm
Etymology
White Horse Hill, mons ubi ad album equum scanditur , locus qui uulgo mons albi equi nuncupatur a. 1170 (c. 1200) ClaudiusCix , Whytehorse 1322 Ipm. The surname of Stephanus de Blanc Cheval , mentioned 1221 Cur, may be derived from here. Birch quotes the reference in Abingdon to Speresholt juxta locum qui vulgo mons albi equi nuncupatur in a footnote to BCS 1121, but it probably goes back only to the date of the MS, not to that of the charter. For a description and discussion of the famous turf figure v. Diana Woolner, 'New Light on the White Horse', Folklore 78 (Summer 1967).
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- Britchcombe Fm
- Grounds Fm
- Long Plantation
- Shepherd's Steps
- Broad Way
- Craven Arms P.H.
- Garrard's Fm
- Little Lane
- Oldland Copse
- Sower Hill Fm
- Stockholm Fm
- Uffington Arch, Uffington Bridge and Uffington Wharf
- Uffington Down and Uffington Gorse
- Uffington Mill
- Uffington Wood
- White Horse P.H.
- Common Fm
- Hare Warren
- Manor Fm and Manor Ho
- Shotover Cottage
- Alfred's Hill
- Coombes Barn, The Coombes
- Kingston Warren Down
- Moor Mill