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Looking from Tan Hill to Milk Hill, Wiltshire

Milk Hill Milk Hill is within the Marlborough Downs in Wiltshire, near Alton Priors. It is the highest point in Wiltshire, reaching 967 feet above sea level, while the adjacent Tan Hill rises to 965 feet. On its slope is the Alton Barnes white horse, a hill figure cut in 1812. The hill has most distinctively shaped slopes, a result of its position on the great ridge of the Marlborough Downs, whose undulating southern escarpment bulges out and round at the hill, forming a formidable glacis around the hill, tempered only at its summit, which is gentle enough to be a ploughed field. (Read more)