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The horse is 62 feet long by 47 high, and it has got thinner since the early twentieth century. It was restored again in
September 2001, when it was re-chalked with pure chalk mixed with water and applied with a stiff brush, but by the late summer of 2002 it already had grass growing on much of its
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Greasley died about 1830, and the school was closed, leading to the horse being neglected for some years, but by 1860 it was back in good condition and can be seen in a photograph taken that year at a cricket match. In 1873 a
Captain Reed, an old boy of Greasley's Academy who had taken part in the
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The smallest such horse in
Wiltshire, the Marlborough horse was cut in 1804 by boys at Mr Greasley's Academy, also called the High Street Academy, a school in Marlborough High Street which occupied the building now The Ivy House Hotel. This was not the present-day
268:(2005), p. 91: "Following the cutting of Marlborough White Horse in 1804 by pupils of the High Street Academy, scouring with revels took place every year for approximately 30 years but halted upon the headmaster's death." – via Internet Archive
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was cut into a nearby hill, commemorating the
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