Milk Hill


Milk Hill, located near Alton Priors east of Devizes, is the highest point in the county of Wiltshire, southwest England, at some 295 m / 968 ft above sea level. It is the location of the Alton Barnes white horse.
On 23 August 2009, the BBC programme Countryfile featured an item on analysis by Ordnance Survey to determine whether Milk or Tan Hill is the higher. It was confirmed that Milk Hill is higher than Tan Hill.
Located at the western edge of the Vale of Pewsey, it is also the highest summit along a 50 km ridge extending all the way from the South Downs, across the southern Chilterns and into Wiltshire. Milk Hill is the second highest point between Bristol and London after Walbury Hill in West Berkshire, and is thus also the second highest chalk hill in the UK, again behind Walbury Hill, though it has a slightly greater prominence.
Milk Hill was the starting point for longest hang-glider flight ever in the UK on 10 May 2011 by Nev Almond. It was also the starting point for the longest paraglider flight in the UK, by Mark Watts on 3 August 2014: 275.5 kilometres, to near Felbrigg in Norfolk.
Views are extensive from here, as far as the Mendips and Cotswolds and even in clear weather as far as the Black Mountains in Wales, making this one of the most southeasterly points in the UK from which high mountain country can be sighted.