Living in Wiltshire, I regularly find myself driving past white horses that have been etched into the countryside. A number of these white horses I have seen numerous times, but really I know nothing about them. So I recently had the idea to get in the car and do a tour of the local Wiltshire white horses, and as a preview I decided to explore them via Google Maps. Here is a roundup of the white horses that I found via Google Maps. The white horses are listed by estimated age, with the oldest first.

read more: Random encounters with the unusual: An Armchair Tour of Britain’s White Horses.