A DEVON farmer has decided to create the county's answer to Dorset's Cerne Abbas Giant and Wiltshire's chalk horses in bovine form, and hopes to get into the Guinness Records

Anthony Lee, from Dowrich Farm at Crediton, came up with the idea to promote his organic milk co-operative.

"What better way than leaving a time-honoured but environmentally friendly mark on the landscape?" he said.

The earth carving is nicknamed Murial and depicts a stylised cow. It is the same size as its inspiration, the ancient Cerne Abbas Giant in Dorset.

It measures 2,450 square metres and took two days to create, with the outline first cut into the turf and then filled in with flour.