Britain's largest chalk hill figure gets 17 tonnes of fresh chalk and a new method to fight climate-driven erosion

Britain's largest chalk hill figure has spent over a thousand years staring out from the slopes of a Dorset hillside, and this May it needed more than a touch-up. In late May 2026, around 300 volunteers and National Trust staff descended on Giant Hill above the village of Cerne Abbas in southwest England to carry out the latest rechalking of the 55-metre-tall Cerne Abbas Giant one of the country's most recognisable and debated ancient monuments.

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