Farley Mount
Monument to an eighteenth century horse at Farley Mount near Winchester. An inscription inside the little structure reads as follows:
'UNDERNEATH LIES BURIED A HORSE THE PROPERTY OF PAULET ST JOHN ESQ THAT IN THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER 1733 LEAPED INTO A CHALK PIT TWENTYFIVE FEET DEEP A FOXHUNTING WITH HIS MASTER ON HIS BACK. AND IN OCTOBER 1734 HE WON THE HUNTERS PLATE ON WORTHY DOWNS AND WAS RODE BY HIS OWNER AND ENTERED IN THE NAME OF "BEWARE CHALK PIT".
'THE ABOVE BEING THE WORDS OF THE ORIGINAL INSCRIPTION WERE RESTORED BY THE Rt HON. SIR WILLIAM HEATHCOTE BARONET SEP. A. D. 1870.'
Farley Mount
Monument to an eighteenth century horse at Farley Mount near Winchester. An inscription inside the little structure reads as follows:
'UNDERNEATH LIES BURIED A HORSE THE PROPERTY OF PAULET ST JOHN ESQ THAT IN THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER 1733 LEAPED INTO A CHALK PIT TWENTYFIVE FEET DEEP A FOXHUNTING WITH HIS MASTER ON HIS BACK. AND IN OCTOBER 1734 HE WON THE HUNTERS PLATE ON WORTHY DOWNS AND WAS RODE BY HIS OWNER AND ENTERED IN THE NAME OF "BEWARE CHALK PIT".
'THE ABOVE BEING THE WORDS OF THE ORIGINAL INSCRIPTION WERE RESTORED BY THE Rt HON. SIR WILLIAM HEATHCOTE BARONET SEP. A. D. 1870.'