White Horse Hill / Uffington Castle / Dragon's Hill / Wayland's Smithy

Today we took a ride to the southwest Oxfordshire to visit White Horse Hill, Uffington Castle, Dragon's Hill and Wayland's Smithy.

Between Uffington Castle and Wayland's Smithy is a Bronze Age road call the Ridgeway. We didn't walk the entire 1.3m from Uffington to Wayland's Smithy. We found a road that took us closer (and through a dirt/mud road next to a corn field) to Wayland's Smithy so we only walked a few hundred yards on the Ridgeway.

These sites are all run by the National Trust but there are no buildings on the site. You are pretty much free to walk anywhere except on the horse itself. The land is very hilly but all of us, even Rachel, was able to climb up and down the hills.

There is nothing remaining of the actual castle structure but at the top of the hill you can walk along the hills on either side of the ditch that surrounded the castle.

Saxon legend has it that if you leave a silver piece and your horse at Wayland's Smithy it will be reshod for you by Wayland the Smith. The children found a number of 1, 2, and 10 pence pieces on the rocks and in the burial chamber itself.