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- Folkestone_White_Horse abstract "The Folkestone White Horse is a white horse hill figure, carved into Cheriton Hill, Folkestone, Kent, South East England. It overlooks the English terminal of the Channel Tunnel and was completed in June 2003.The horse was planned as a Millennium Landmark to help regenerate the Folkestone area. The design for the horse was drawn by a local artist, Charlie Newington, inspired by a nearby Iron Age fort in an area known as Horse Hill dating from three millennia ago and also based on the White Horse of Uffington.Planning permission for the project was first applied for in April 1998, with an illustrative canvas mockup being erected in August 1999. The project was opposed by the Government watchdog English Nature due to the site's importance as a Site of Special Scientific Interest. In 2000 English Nature appealed to Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, although the project was said to have widespread public support by local MP and prominent politician Michael Howard. The project was supported by Shepway District Council, who adopted it as their corporate logo. Due to the opposition, the project went to a public enquiry in 2001. The project was given the go-ahead in March 2002 by Stephen Byers, then Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, who stated that the emotional and symbolic value of the project outweighed the possible environmental damage.Construction of the horse began in September 2002. The work to build the horse was completed entirely by hand. Directed from afar by the artist via radio, a team of volunteers staked out a second canvas template of the horse, and following this, shallow trenches were then dug into the topsoil, 12–24 inches (30–60 cm) wide. These trenches were then filled with limestone slabs. The entire figure is approximately 90 metres long, measured from the front to the rear hoof.Both the Green Party and Friends of the Earth appealed to the European Union to stop the project based on the site's protection under the European Habitats Directive. In early May 2003 the EU issued a formal notice to the UK Government declaring the work illegal, and giving the government two months to either explain the 2001 enquiry decision satisfactorily, or restore the site, by which time the turf for the horse had already been cut and transplanted.Over two weeks in May 2003 a team of volunteers including locally based Gurkha soldiers transported, cut and positioned limestone slabs in the trenches, fixing them in place with pins. The limestone laying phase of the construction, which had been delayed when the Gurkhas were needed to crew fire engines during the 2002–2003 Firemen's strike, was completed in early June 2003, with the formal notice from the EU outstanding.In June 2004 \"The Friends of the Folkestone White Horse\" was formed, to promote the landmark and look after the site, which requires periodic light weeding. A time capsule was buried on the site on 18 June 2004.".
- Folkestone_White_Horse thumbnail Folkestone_White_Horse_cropped.jpg?width=300.
- Folkestone_White_Horse wikiPageExternalLink folk.htm.
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- Folkestone_White_Horse wikiPageRevisionID "690852421".
- Folkestone_White_Horse wikiPageWikiLink Canvas.
- Folkestone_White_Horse wikiPageWikiLink Category:2003_works.
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- Folkestone_White_Horse wikiPageWikiLink Category:Protected_areas_of_Kent.
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- Folkestone_White_Horse wikiPageWikiLink Cheriton_Hill.
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- Folkestone_White_Horse wikiPageWikiLink European_Union.
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- Folkestone_White_Horse wikiPageWikiLink Limestone.
- Folkestone_White_Horse wikiPageWikiLink Michael_Howard.
- Folkestone_White_Horse wikiPageWikiLink Shepway.
- Folkestone_White_Horse wikiPageWikiLink Site_of_Special_Scientific_Interest.
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- Folkestone_White_Horse wikiPageWikiLink UK_firefighter_dispute_2002–2003.
- Folkestone_White_Horse wikiPageWikiLink Uffington_White_Horse.
- Folkestone_White_Horse wikiPageWikiLink White_Horse_at_Ebbsfleet.
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- Folkestone_White_Horse wikiPageWikiLinkText "Folkestone White Horse".
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- Folkestone_White_Horse subject Category:2003_works.
- Folkestone_White_Horse subject Category:Channel_Tunnel.
- Folkestone_White_Horse subject Category:Folkestone.
- Folkestone_White_Horse subject Category:Protected_areas_of_Kent.
- Folkestone_White_Horse subject Category:White_horses_in_England.
- Folkestone_White_Horse hypernym Figure.
- Folkestone_White_Horse point "51.101208 1.139708".
- Folkestone_White_Horse type Person.
- Folkestone_White_Horse type Place.
- Folkestone_White_Horse type Work.
- Folkestone_White_Horse type Place.
- Folkestone_White_Horse type Resort.
- Folkestone_White_Horse type Work.
- Folkestone_White_Horse type SpatialThing.
- Folkestone_White_Horse comment "The Folkestone White Horse is a white horse hill figure, carved into Cheriton Hill, Folkestone, Kent, South East England. It overlooks the English terminal of the Channel Tunnel and was completed in June 2003.The horse was planned as a Millennium Landmark to help regenerate the Folkestone area.".
- Folkestone_White_Horse label "Folkestone White Horse".
- Folkestone_White_Horse sameAs Q5464533.
- Folkestone_White_Horse sameAs הסוס_הלבן_של_פוקסטון.
- Folkestone_White_Horse sameAs m.05h2q7s.
- Folkestone_White_Horse sameAs Q5464533.
- Folkestone_White_Horse sameAs 福克斯通白马.
- Folkestone_White_Horse lat "51.101208".
- Folkestone_White_Horse long "1.139708".
- Folkestone_White_Horse wasDerivedFrom Folkestone_White_Horse?oldid=690852421.
- Folkestone_White_Horse depiction Folkestone_White_Horse_cropped.jpg.
- Folkestone_White_Horse homepage index.html.
- Folkestone_White_Horse isPrimaryTopicOf Folkestone_White_Horse.