Even the pupils of an exclusive private school, Marlborough College, clean their local horse. Scouts regularly abseil down the face of the Cherhill horse, cheerfully weeding as they go. Each village has its own approach to keeping the edges defined-a bit of extreme gardening. Holding back nature is also an ongoing problem some horses have disappeared altogether.
Large teams ram down additional pieces of chalk with sledgehammers, sometimes adding lime for brightness. With the shape complete, help may still be needed to make the horse white. From more than a mile away from the hillside, he shouted instructions through a large speaking trumpet to men marking out the shape with white flags. Christopher Alsop, known as the “Mad Doctor” (probably for creating the horse in the first place). The Cherhill horse was created in 1780 by Dr. Translating such artistic ideals onto a windy hillside, however, is not easy. More realistic horse shapes started to be used in the mid-18th century, inspired by the work of George Stubbs, the British painter of horses.
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