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Cantiaci Hillfigures Litlington Horse
A relatively small addition to the canon of equine hillfigures, the Horse is slightly less than 25 metres long. He can be viewed from several points along the road heading south from Wilmington, although the best views are on foot from the South Downs Way.
It is the second Horse on the site. The first stood slightly NW of the present figure. Cut in 1838 to commemorate Victoria's coronation ( local legend claims it was completed in a single day), it had overgrown and vanished completely by 1920.
Another legend claims that the horse is a memorial to a girl who was killed when the horse she was riding threw her after bolting down the hill. The present Horse was cut in 1924 by a Mr John Ade, whose grandfather helped with the cutting of the original Horse. He was assisted by two friends and, for unknown reasons, constructed it in moonlight.
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