The white horse on the arms of Berkshire County Council was substituted for a black one when they lost Uffington!
http://www.civicheraldry.co.uk/obs_county.html

i often thought that was odd too, but the cherhill horse isnt a very old one , so its perfectly plausable that the pub might have been there first, i'm sure it wouldnt be hard to find out.

About 40 years ago there was a book called The Black Horsemen written by (???) who claimed that a large number of pubs called The Black Horse were sited in what would have been likely battle sites or routes to them when Arthur was fighting the Saxon invaders. He suggested (King) Arthur's men had been mounted on black horses and the pubs are on the sites of earlier inns that commemorated a local tradition. Seems a bit far fetched but I remember the book was quite well written and didn't claim the idea was a new revelation, just a suggested hypothesis.
Anybody else remember it? Has it been debunked?

black horse pub in upper wanborough. Its pretty close to the roman road emerging from swindon and on a branch of the icknield way. Is it close enough to Liddington Castle to be one of those Romano-British vs Saxon invader black horses??? Mons GoodGuessicuss?

WF