Children's/YA book (and TV series) UK White Horse of Uffington

A dimly remembered TV series from the 1970s / early 1980s. Sure it was also a book.

White Horse of Uffington & Wayland's Smithy. A group of kids, a horse, possibly time-slippage.

SCARY! (but I am easily scared)

It's not: an American series of books from the 2000s
It's not: a Terry Pratchett set around there
It's not: the Rosemary Sutcliffe about the carving of the white horse. Well, I don't think it is. It might be, if there are modern kids in that one.

Thank you!

I don't know your book, I'm afraid, but I can confirm that there are no modern kids in the Sutcliffe Sun Horse, Moon Horse.

I think the smithy features in the Dark is Rising sequence - but not sure about the Uffington Horse. The first book Over Sea, Under Stone was filmed for Jackanory...

#2 thanks for confirming it's not the Sutcliffe

#3 it does indeed and I should have confirmed it wasn't the Dark is Rising books otherwise (hasn't there been a film recently too, which I refused to watch through loving the books so much!?)

>4 LyzzyBee:: Yes, there was; I refuse to see it too; and I hear that it's really, really bad.

>4 LyzzyBee:, 5
I refused to see it as well - having heard that they made huge changes in it, including making Will (the hero) into an American boy. :-P

4,5,6 You definitely don't want to watch it. Big disappointment, nothing like the books.

The High Riders by Margaret Hodges? Forced by his late arrival in England to stay in separate lodgings from the rest of his school's crew team, 14-year-old Larry Dunlap finds himself becoming increasingly involved with the local people and their ghosts from the past. 1980, 172 p.

It came up in this google books search result but I don't know for sure if it has White Horse of Uffington in it. Did you try the wikipedia article that mentions several books?

Thanks Bookel, it's not that one and it's not any of the ones mentioned in the wikipedia article either!!

Maybe it's the Moon Stallion. This came up in my google search. Wikipedia says it's a tv series and there's also a book by Brian Hayles who wrote the series.
IMDB confirms that the story features the White Horse of Uffington and a blind girl who can see a mysterious horse.

Swi - OMG - you've got it! oooh , I'm scared just looking at the cover! Of course there are no copies in the world, but I'm sure I'll find one one day...

Thank you!

Oooh fantastic, a new one for my list!

LyzzyBee have you tried WorldCat.org to see if it's in a library near you? It's a pity it's not available secondhand, I'd like to read it too! Sad... according to google books the original price was 60p!

Here's a review of the book.

Oh cool - I'm in touch with Jane via Twitter etc as she does a wide range of pony books. Well we can all watch out for a copy. Maybe the book's not as scary as the TV programme!!

It appears to be on DVD in the UK. I've never heard of the series before. You could borrow the book from the British Library couldn't you? They have it listed.

I don't think the British Library lends; it's the UK depository library. If you're in London, you can go and read it there; I've done that, in the past!

Oh, I had no idea where that was located... I thought it was for the whole country! It didn't seem to give holdings (shelf) location information, but then I'm not completely familiar with it... seems to have a lot of books I'd like to look at though!

The main library is in the British Museum - a fabulous reading room
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Museum_Reading_Room

A lot of the collection has now been moved off-site, though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Library

And I don't have a reading room ticket for the BL...

But I do go to Hay on Wye every couple of years and I expect I'll find it there eventually!

Oh nice! I've heard of that place... a whole town of bookshops! The charity shops and secondhand bookshops in England will have to do for now for me... don't think I'll get to Hay on Wye this time, it's too far.

Whereabouts are you in England? If you can get to Hereford, its an hour's bus journey from there and well worth a visit! (hence me only allowing myself to go once every two years...)

I'll be holidaying in the southeast but will only be in the midlands a couple days, no time to go to Hay on Wye sadly. What are their prices like (for children's books)?

For future planning, which bus company in Hereford, and can you get it anywhere else? (eg. Stafford? Worcester?), and how much is the bus from Hereford to Hay on Wye? I'd love to go there someday! That village would need more than a few days to browse!

Oh that's a shame. Wave when you come to the Midlands (I'm in Birmingham)

Can't remember the bus company but if you google bus journey planner UK there is a UK-wide planner I used. I think the fare was about £5 but you get a lovely trip through the countryside.

Prices vary hugely as the shops do. There is a specialised children's bookshop but a lot of the smaller, odder ones do too and I have picked stuff up for £1 or £2. Stuff maybe only I would want, but...

I went to Birmingham once! :)
Sounds good, and that's a good bus fare price actually (I've heard of more expensive ones for the same or longer distance).
It seems the cheapest secondhand books are often found in the charity shops, and some secondhand bookshops, all over England. 20p, 50p and so on, but some do charge £1 or more.

Hooray! Yes, except Oxfam book shops which have really high prices these days.

They do indeed... I have noticed some alphabetize their books, however. It varies how orderly their different sections are. Some charity shops say they leave a section in a mess (eg. children's books) so that people will go through all of them, but I find that so irritating and time consuming, plus books are more likely to be damaged. Some charity shops here just don't seem to care so much. Another shop, a secondhand 'collectors' shop, charges way too much for their secondhand books and they are all dusty, plus they store large empty boxes there for months on end so half the books aren't accessible... I hardly ever go there, and it's not in my town anyway, luckily.

I know the location of every Goodwill within 200 miles of Dunning.