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New page: The Vale of the White Horse, named after the White Horse of Uffington, is an area on the borders of Berkshire and Oxfordshire. The dispute has been rumbling ever since the part...
The Vale of the White Horse, named after the [[White Horse of Uffington]], is an area on the borders of [[Berkshire]] and [[Oxfordshire]]. The dispute has been rumbling ever since the partition of [[Mercia]] by the [[Vikings]] in the 9th century, and during the [[English Civil War]] in the 17th century the Royalist forces of the county of Oxfordshire seized the area from the Parliamentarian forces of Berkshire. With the beheading of [[Charles I]] the area was returned to Berkshire, but border disputes continued to flair up until eventually in 1974 the government transfered the area to Oxfordshire.