Bibliography
Books
Ashe, Geoffrey | Mythology of the British Isles | Methuen, London SW3, 1993 (first pub. 1990) |
Askew, Maurice
| Hill Figures of England | The Crowood Press Ltd., Ramsbury, Marlborough, 2002 |
Bergamar, Kate | Discovering Hillfigures | Shire Publications Ltd., Princes Risborough, Aylesbury, 1997 (First pub. Shire, 1968) |
Blackford, J H | The Manor and Village of Cherhill | J H Blackford, 1941 |
Castleden, Rodney
| Ancient British Hill Figures | S B Publications, 1999 |
Chandler, John
| The Vale of Pewsey | Ex Libris Press, Bradford on Avon, 1991 |
Child, Mark | Shire County Guide: Wiltshire | Shire Publications Ltd., Princes Risborough, Aylesbury, 1984 |
Delorme, Mary | Curious Wiltshire | Ex Libris Press, Bradford on Avon, 2001 (first pub. 1985) |
Goodman, Kent | Chalk Figures of Wessex | Wessex Books, Newton Toney, Salisbury, 1998 |
Greed, Peter | The Devizes White Horse (leaflet) | Cavaliers of the Devizes Millennium White Horse, 1999 |
Greenwood, William | Te Waimatemate | Waimate County Council and Waimate Borough Council, South Island, New Zealand 1985 |
Harper, Charles G | The Bath Road | Cecil Palmer, London WC2, 1923 (first pub. 1899) |
Hodgson, G B | The Borough of South Shields | Andrew Reid & Co, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1903 |
Lansdown, George | The White Horses of Wiltshire/War Badges on the Wiltshire Downs | B Lansdown & Sons, Trowbridge, 1925 |
Marples, Morris | White Horses and other Hill Figures | Alan Sutton, Stroud, 1981 (first pub. Country Life, 1949) |
Newman, Paul | Gods and Graven Images: The Chalk Hill-Figures of Britain | Robert Hale Ltd., London, 1987 (revised as the title below) |
Newman, Paul | Lost Gods of Albion: The Chalk Hill-Figures of Britain | Alan Sutton, Stroud, 1997 (revision of the above title) |
Pennick, Nigel | Ancient Hill-Figures of England (booklet) | Institute of Geomantic Research, 1976 |
Plenderleath, Rev. W C | The White Horses of the West of England | Alfred Russell Smith, London; Alfred Heath, Calne; 1885 |
Watts, Kenneth | The Marlborough Downs | Ex Libris Press, Bradford on Avon, 1993 |
Whitlock, Ralph | The Folklore of Wiltshire | B T Batsford Ltd., London W1, 1976 |
Wiltshire, Kathleen | Wiltshire Folklore | Compton Russell Ltd, Compton Chamberlayne, Salisbury, 1975 |
Young, J & M | A Tour of the White Horses: Uffington and the Six in Wiltshire (leaflet) | J & M Young, Marlborough, undated, believed 1986 |
Young, J & M | How to See the White Horses: Uffington and the 8 in Wiltshire (leaflet) | J & M Young, Marlborough, undated |
Articles
(This is a representative selection only)
Davis, Jean | A Lost White Horse on Pitstone Hill? | Records of Buckinghamshire, Vol 32, 1990 |
Edwards, Deirdre | The WCCSG goes out to Milk Hill on the Solstice to revive an old tradition | The Spiral, issue 69, Dec 2001/Jan 2002 |
Egdell, D | The Lost Horse of Westbury | 3rd Stone Magazine, Oct-Dec 1999 |
Humphrey, David | White horse to chalk up another 30 years | Western Daily Press, 9 Sep 2002 |
Jenkins, David | Love and the White Horse | Shields Gazette, 21 Jan 1966 |
McCarthy, Michael | Why are we crazy for those white horses? | The Independent, 29 Mar 2002 |
Norfolk, Andrew | Byers gives free rein to Folkestone white horse | The Times, 29 Mar 2002 |
Smith, C A | Tragic Story of White Horse of Cleadon Hill | Sunderland Echo, 13 Nov 1969 |
(unknown) | The Eighth White Horse | Sunday Times (South Africa), 10 Sep 2000 |
(unknown) | The White Horse Legends Start Before Conqueror | Shields Gazette, 16 Aug 1968 |
Web sources
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