White Horse

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In this disambiguation page, White Horse is used as a proper name. For information on white-colored horses, mammals with a white coat colour, see White (horse), Gray (horse), and Lipizzaner.

For the horse-shaped chalk figures that many of the following are named for, see hill figure.

White Horse may refer to:

Contents 1 Places 1.1 in Australia 1.2 in Canada 1.3 in England 1.4 in the U.S.A. 1.5 in China 2 Inns, restaurants and bars 3 Prehistorical monuments 4 Places of worship 5 Literature 6 Television 7 Heraldry 8 Weather 9 Branding 10 Religion 11 Sport 12 People 13 Music 14 Whisky

[edit] Places

[edit] in Australia

• City of Whitehorse, Victoria

[edit] in Canada

• Whitehorse, Yukon, the capital of the Yukon Territory, named after the White Horse rapids on the Yukon River

[edit] in England

• Osmington White Horse, near Osmington, Dorset
• Uffington White Horse, Oxfordshire
• The Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire
• White Horse Bridge, Wembley (see also the White Horse Final)
• White Horse Inn, Cambridge

[edit] in the U.S.A.

• White Horse, New Jersey
• White Horse and Whitehorse, South Dakota (two different places)
• Manderson-White Horse Creek, South Dakota

[edit] in China

• White Horse Village, a rural village being transformed by communist authorities into a huge city.
• White Horse Temple in luoyang, first Buddhist temple in China.

[edit] Inns, restaurants and bars

• The White Horse Inn (Weißes Rössl) in St. Wolfgang, Austria, which serves as the setting of a musical comedy of the same name
• The White Horse Inn in Bakewell, Derbyshire, England, where Bakewell Pudding was first served
• The White Horse Pub in London, where London's science fiction community gathered in the 1940s and 1950s; Arthur C. Clarke wrote a collection of short stories entitled Tales from the White Hart, where the White Hart was a pub based on the White Horse.
• The White Horse Inn in McDermitt, Nevada, United States—a now-abandoned saloon, hotel, and, reportedly, brothel located on the state line between Nevada and Oregon
• The White Horse Inn bar in Champaign, Illinois
• The White Horse Tavern in Greenwich Village, New York, where poet Dylan Thomas drank himself to death
• The White Horse Inn bar in Oakland, California, the second oldest gay bar in the United States.
• The historical White Horse Tavern of Cambridge, England - famous as a meeting place in the 1520s for many of theologians who came to dominate the English Reformation.

[edit] Prehistorical monuments

• The Upper and Lower White Horse Stones, megaliths near Aylesford, Kent, England
• The Uffington White Horse, one of several horse-shaped chalk figures in the United Kingdom

[edit] Places of worship

• The White Horse Temple, the first Buddhist temple in China

[edit] Literature

• White Horse, a book published by Emanuel Swedenborg in 1758
• The White Horse Dialogue by Gongsun Longzi
• A white horse is depicted as the loyal mount of Prince Charming in fairy tale literature
• "The Ballad of White Horse" by G.K. Chesterton

[edit] Television

• The White Horses is a 1960's television series, and the name of its popular theme tune - see Music below

[edit] Heraldry

• The heraldic signs of both Kent and the House of Hanover contain a white horse

[edit] Weather

• The white wind-blown caps of sea waves are often described as white horses, for example in the Beaufort scale windforce 5 is described as "Moderate waves, many white horses".

[edit] Branding

• White horses is the brand name of a clothing line for wind- and kitesurfers, taking its name from the weather phenomenon, since white horses are found when the wind is good to go play in the water. whitehorsez

[edit] Religion

• In Christian tradition, a white horse is ridden by one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

[edit] Sport

• The FA Cup Final 1923 is often referred to as the "White Horse Final"

[edit] People

• White Horse, a Kiowa chief

[edit] Music

• The third single from Goldfrapp's album Supernature, "Ride a White Horse"
• A hit song from 1984 by the group Laid Back, "White Horse (song)", covered in 2006 by Wonderland Avenue
• "White Horses" was the catchy theme tune of the children's 1965 TV series The White Horses - a UK hit for Jackie Lee in April 1968 and covered by Kitchens of Distinction in the 1990s.
• "White Horse" was the 1974 debut album of Michael Omartian.
• White Horse was a California-based Rock-n-roll band active in the 1970s that featured future Mötley Crüe guitarist Mick Mars.

[edit] Whisky

• White Horse is a brand of blended Scotch whisky produced by Diageo