 The smallest such horse in Wiltshire, the Marlborough horse was cut in 1804 by boys at Mr Greasley's Academy, also called the High Street Academy, a school in the Marlborough High Street which occupied the building now The Ivy House Hotel.This was not the present-day Marlborough College, which is only a short distance away.The horse was designed and marked out on the hill by a boy called William Canning, whose family owned the Manor House at Ogbourne St George.