VALE OF WHITE-HORSE, (Berkshire) a fertile tract, extending from Farringdon almost to Abingdon, so called from the
representation of a horse in exact proportion, on the side of a hill that takes up near an acre, and was, it is supposed,
made by the Saxons, whose device is a White-Horse. About Midsummer every year, the people of the next p. go and weed it,
in order to keep the horse in shape and colour, and after the work is over they end the day in merriment. This vale yields
a vast quantity of barley.