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Visitors to Wayland's Smithy walk along a short path from the Ridgeway and enter the site at this point close to the entrance to the barrow. The name is known to have been used since at least AD955, possibly handed down from a time when metalworking was seen as a magical practice; alternatively perhaps the local people, unsure of what it was, concluded that it had been a blacksmith's forge. There are a number of legends associated with it including one in which the white horse from nearby Whitehorse Hill visits the site periodically in the dead of the night to be shod - always, of course, returning to its hillside by daybreak.