The Cherhill White Horse is sporting a fresh new look this week after a re-chalk makeover at the weekend.
Cherhill White Horse Restoration Group Chair Rob Pickford and Dave Grafton were helped by Scouts and Cubs to bag up approximately eighteen tonnes of chalk which was loaded on to pallets and taken up the hill to the horse.
Over 100 volunteers arrived on the day to help with the task, forming a human chain to pass down the bags to the horse area.
Re-chalking has taken place every other year since 2002 with weeding being carried out on the intermittent years.
The figure at Cherhill was first cut in 1780 by a Dr Christopher Alsop, of Calne and is the third oldest of several such white horses in Great Britain, with only the Uffington White Horse and the Westbury White Horse being older.
Photo credit: Emilian Bugner
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