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 15 Illicit Drugs

[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

• Kilburn White Horse, near Kilburn, North York Moors
• 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
• White Horse Middle School, Madison, WI

[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.
• The [White Horse Inn] of [Metamora] [Michigan], 48455. Former stage coach stop, now restaurant.

[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 the 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

• White Horse is an Instrumental band in Copenhagen Denmark. Led by the Icelandic Baldur Sivertsen.
• The third single from Goldfrapp's album Supernature, "Ride a White Horse"
• A hit song from 1983 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.
• Referenced in Beck's song Farewell Ride. "Two white horses in a line, carrying me to my burying ground."
• Tori Amos makes references to White Horses in two songs. The first one is on "Winter": ""All the white horses are still in bed/All the white horses have gone ahead" and the second one, in the song Horses. "The record (Boys For Pele) begins with the white horses from Winter coming back to take me on this journey and we ride and go find the demons..." -- Tori; Making Music, Jan 1996

[edit] Whisky

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

[edit] Illicit Drugs

• White Horse can be used as an informal name for Heroin or Cocaine