브로드 힌튼 주변 최고의 버스 정류장 출발 하이킹 & 워킹 코스

Wiltshire의 다른 White Horses와 마찬가지로, 이 형상은 잔디를 제거하고 그 아래의 흰색 분필을 드러내어 만들어졌습니다. Hackpen Hill의 경사면은 다른 많은 분필 형상보다 가파르지 않기 때문에, 말은 부분적으로 쌓아 올려지고 멀리서도 잘 보이도록 특별한 주의를 기울여 디자인해야 했습니다. 이 형상은 남부 잉글랜드의 긴 분필 그림 전통에 속합니다. 이 White Horses 중 다수는 18세기와 19세기에 지역 랜드마크, 지역적 자부심의 표현 또는 특별한 사건을 기념하기 위해 만들어졌습니다. 종종 같은 해 빅토리아 여왕의 대관식이 그 계기로 언급됩니다.

Hackpen White Horse는 윌트셔의 Hackpen Hill 경사면에 있는 큰 흰색 분필 조각상입니다. 1838년에 만들어졌을 것으로 추정되며 남부 잉글랜드의 유명한 "White Horses" 중 하나입니다. 역사적인 장거리 도보 경로인 The Ridgeway가 바로 위로 지나갑니다. 여기서는 말버러 다운스의 부드러운 백악질 언덕을 멀리까지 조망할 수 있습니다. White Horse, 탁 트인 풍경, 고대의 Ridgeway는 이곳을 하이커와 사진작가들에게 인기 있는 목적지로 만듭니다. 주차장과 짧은 도보 경로를 통해 전망대까지 쉽게 접근할 수 있습니다.

Hackpen Hill과 The Ridgeway의 전망은 부드럽고 탁 트인 능선, 넓은 들판, 역사적인 길을 특징으로 하는 전형적인 영국 백악질 언덕 풍경을 보여줍니다. The Ridgeway는 영국에서 가장 오래된 장거리 도보 경로 중 하나로 간주되며 Hackpen Hill 근처에서 Wiltshire의 구릉 지대를 통과합니다. 특히 맑은 날에는 고지대에서 Marlborough Downs의 탁 트인 전망을 감상할 수 있습니다.

On the left hand side of the Altar you will find the tomb of a 13th century Abbess. The slab bears evidence of an attempt to destroy it, probably during the reformation. The tomb was moved from elsewhere in the church during Victorian changes to the chancel area. As the lands at the north of the Benefice were under the control and ownership of Glastonbury Abbey, at which there was a Nunnery, it is entirely possible this Abbess was a significant figure. The tomb slab is remarkable and a very rare example of a slab tomb that is both etched and carved with a face.

The Sir William Wroughton monument on the right in the chancel describes Elizabeth I as Queen of England and France although Mary, her predecessor, had lost Calais, the last remaining English possession in France in 1558 and Elizabeth renounced her claim to Calais in 1559.

Lt. Colonel Francis Glanville, killed fighting for Charles I in 1645 at the battle of Bridgewater in the Civil War, has his helmet, gauntlets and a replica of his sword (the original is in the Royal Armoury) displayed above him. The Latin inscription ends “A greater hero England never saw, happily she did oft produce his equal”. The small reclining figure of a woman in her shroud at the bottom of this monument (usually hidden behind a bench seat) appears in Pevsner’s guide to Wiltshire:“her agonised features are not easily forgotten”. A panel from the Duke of Wellington’s funeral carriage (1851) hangs in the chancel in a glass case because the victor of Waterloo owned land locally.

In the top left corner of the nave is a flight of stone steps which shows there was once a medieval rood screen to screen the chancel off from the laity, probably with a figure of Christ on the cross above. Next to the stone steps are George III’s Royal Arms, painted in 1763 and cleaned in 2008 – note the fleur de lys in the shield. The chancel contains some interesting monuments to the Glanville family. Sir John was Speaker of the House of Commons in 1640. He burned his own Manor House rather than let it be used by Cromwell’s troops. A famous lawyer, he spent three years in the Tower of London after the Civil War for holding illegal Assizes and later served Charles II, as he had Charles I, as Sergeant-at-Law.

The sixteenth century was a bad time for this church. In 1553 parishioners refused to receive communion for fear of falling masonry. The broken stones allowed so many birds into the then chancel that the minister couldn’t stand by the communion table and there was no seat whilst reading the psalms. John Batewell, a vicar appointed in 1576, was officially censured for his inability to preach, neglect of catechizing and failure to wear the prescribed dress. However, a water colour of the church, painted in 1795 has text underneath which says that the church was “new built in the year 1634; brought to perfection in the year 1635; finished and beautified in the year 1636; a new pulpit erected in the year 1672; the first loft in the tower was boarded in 1676; the belfry and church porch paved in 1677”. The wonderful tie and hammer beam roof of the nave belongs to the 1634 rebuilding.