2008 : The White Hart, Batheaston
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2008 : The White Hart, Batheaston
Image: © Maurice Pullin Taken: 20 May 2008
The White Hart ("hart" is an old word for stag) was the personal badge of Richard II, who derived it from the arms of his mother, Joan "The Fair Maid of Kent", heiress of Edmund of Woodstock. In the Wilton Diptych (National Gallery, London), which is the earliest authentic contemporary portrait of an English king, Richard II wears a gold and enamelled white hart jewel, and even the angels surrounding the Virgin Mary all wear white hart badges. In English Folklore, the White Hart is associated with Herne the Hunter. from http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/white+hart
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Image Location
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51.404641
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-2.323128