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Uffington White Horse – Uffington Castle Hillfort loop from Ashbury

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Uffington White Horse – Uffington Castle Hillfort loop from Ashbury

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Uffington White Horse – Uffington Castle Hillfort loop from Ashbury

03:47

13.9km

210m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: April 16, 2026

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North Wessex Downs National Landscape

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Start point

Bus stop

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1.01 km

Beech Forest Path

Highlight • Trail

Turn into the small wood from main path and you can hike through beautiful high trees

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3.63 km

Uffington Castle is an early Iron Age (with underlying Bronze Age) univallate hillfort in Oxfordshire, England. It covers about 32,000 square metres and is surrounded by two earth banks separated by a ditch with an entrance in the western end. A second entrance in the eastern end was apparently blocked up a few centuries after it was built. The original defensive ditch was V-shaped with a small box rampart in front and a larger one behind it. Timber posts stood on the ramparts. Later the ditch was deepened and the extra material dumped on top of the ramparts to increase their size. A parapet wall of sarsen stones lined the top of the innermost rampart.
Excavations have indicated that it was probably built in the 7th or 8th century BC and continued to be occupied throughout the Iron Age. Isolated postholes were found inside the fort but no evidence of buildings. Pottery, loom weights and animal bone finds suggest some form of occupation however. The most activity appears to have been during the Roman period as the artefacts recovered from the upper fills of the ditch attest. The ramparts were remodelled to provide more entrances, and a shrine seems to have been built in the early 4th century AD. Two oblong mounds, one containing 46 Romano-British burials and one containing eight Saxon burials, lie nearby.
An ancient track passes by the northern entrance to the hillfort; it is known as The Ridgeway. It links to the Icknield Way at the Goring Gap, and passes close to Avebury before heading south across Salisbury Plain. It also passes very close to a Neolithic chambered long barrow, Waylands Smithy, about a mile to the west.

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3.91 km

Uffington White Horse

Highlight • Monument

Uffington Castle is an exceptionally well-preserved example of an Iron Age hill fort. The White Horse is the oldest chalk-cut hill figure in Britain, too; perhaps over 3,000 years old. From the summit, you are afforded wonderful views.

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4.43 km

Uffington Castle Hillfort

Highlight • Summit

On White Horse Hill, this large hillfort dates back to the Iron Age and lies next to the extraordinary Uffington White Horse, a prehistoric chalk figure. Combined, they make for a wonderful site to ramble about. The fort lies on the ancient Ridgeway, Britain's oldest road and numerous other hillforts reside in the area.

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4.52 km

Views from White Horse Hill

Highlight • Viewpoint

4.56 km

The Ridgeway at Uffington White Horse

Highlight • Trail

The Uffington White Horse is a prehistoric hill figure, 110 m (360 ft) long, formed from deep trenches filled with crushed white chalk. The figure is situated on the upper slopes of White Horse Hill in the English civil parish of Uffington (in the ceremonial county of Oxfordshire and historic county of Berkshire), some 16 km (10 mi) east of Swindon, 8 km (5.0 mi) south of the town of Faringdon and a similar distance west of the town of Wantage; or 2.5 km (1.6 mi) south of Uffington. The hill forms a part of the scarp of the Berkshire Downs and overlooks the Vale of White Horse to the north. The best views of the figure are obtained from the air, or from directly across the Vale, particularly around the villages of Great Coxwell, Longcot and Fernham.

The Uffington White Horse was created some time between 1380 and 550 BC, during the late Bronze Age or early Iron Age. The site is owned and managed by the National Trust and is a scheduled monument. The Guardian stated in 2003 that "for more than 3,000 years, the Uffington White Horse has been jealously guarded as a masterpiece of minimalist art." The Uffington Horse is by far the oldest of the white horse figures in Britain and is of an entirely different design from the others inspired by it.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uffington_White_Horse

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8.26 km

The White Horse Inn, Woolstone

Highlight • Pub

The White Horse Inn is a beautiful, 16th century, thatched roof pub located in the small village of Woolstone. The pub is a stone's throw away from Uffington White Horse, a prehistoric hill figure filled with crushed white chalk.

It's the perfect location for those visiting some of the attractions of this area who want to refuel on delicious grub and real ales.

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10.3 km

Historic Stone Church and Cemetery

Highlight • Religious Site

10.6 km

Windmillhill Copse

Forest

13.9 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

10.5 km

1.64 km

1.03 km

537 m

184 m

Surfaces

5.80 km

3.79 km

2.61 km

861 m

721 m

133 m

Elevation

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Highest point (260 m)

Lowest point (90 m)

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Uffington White Horse – Uffington Castle Hillfort loop from Ashbury

Beech Forest Path

Uffington Castle hillfort

Uffington White Horse

Uffington Castle Hillfort

Views from White Horse Hill

The Ridgeway at Uffington White Horse

The White Horse Inn, Woolstone

Historic Stone Church and Cemetery

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