Books

Violet Alford - The Hobby Horse and other Animal Masks (Merlin Press, 1978)

David Kerr Cameron "The English Fair" (Sutton Publishing, 1998)

T Darvill, K Baker, B Bender & R Hutton (eds) "The Cerne Giant - an Antiquity on Trial" (Oxbow Books, 1999)

Ivan G. Sparkes - "Old Horseshoes" (Shire Album 19, Shire Publications Ltd, 1979)

Morris Marples - 'White Horses and other Hill Figures' (1949, reprinted Alan Sutton, 1981)

Web-sites

Banbury Hobby Horse Festival web-site.
<www.hobbyhorsefestival.co.uk>

See this web-site for the national, county and local Bridleroute network.
<www.ride-uk.org.uk>

BriggLife web-site contains much information on Brigg Horse Fair
<www.brigglife.co.uk/events/horse_fair>

Information on Dartmoor Ponies can be found on the National Park Authority web-site.
<www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk>

The Earl of Rone Council web-site has information on this annual festival.
<www.earl-of-rone.org.uk>

Information on Exmoor Ponies.
<www.imh.org/imh/bw/exmoor.html>

The Exmoor Pony Society:
<www.tomh.demon.co.uk/exmoor/pony.htm>

Information about Fell Ponies:
<www.raresteeds.com>

More about Heavy Horses:
<www.heavyhorses.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk>

More about the Hooden Horse:
<www.morrisman.f2s.com/Hoodening.htm>

For Horseshoes, visit the Worshipful Company of Farriers web-site.
<www.wcf.org.uk>

Find out about a Horseshoe tradition on the Oakham Castle web-site.
<www.aboutbritain.com/OakhamCastle.htm>

Information about New Forest Ponies:
<www.newforestpony.com>

New Forest Ponies are also featured on the Hampshire County Council web-site.
<www.hants.gov.uk/newforesthistory/poniesof.htm>

For information on Quoits:
<www.tradgames.org.uk/games/Quoits.htm>

Information about Shire Horses:
<www.shire-horse.org.uk>

Also Wadworth's Brewery of Devizes has a web-site which features its dray horses.
<www.wadworth.co.uk/shire_horses.html>