Broad Town
THE origins of the Broad
Town White Horse are somewhat confused.
 Located
three miles south of Wootton Bassett, the horse is on a steep slope on land
belonging to Littletown Farm. According to documents written by Reverend Plenderleath
in 1885, it was cut in 1864 by was the owner of Littletown Farm, William Simmonds.
Another story tells of a letter sent to the local paper by a curator at the
Imperial War Museum in 1919. The curator stated that as a child in 1863, he
scoured the horse with a friend and that the horse was around 50 years old
at that time.
This would have meant the Broad Town horse was created around 1813, 51 years
earlier than in the previous story.
Whatever its past, the horse's future is in safe hands. It is now looked after
by the Broad Town White Horse Restoration Society, which was formed in 1991.
The society restored the badly neglected horse in 1991 and continues to scour
it on a regular basis.
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