Yesterday I discovered the sarsen stone memorial to Richard Jefferies and Alfred Williams. In a field on the left as you go uphill towards Barbury Castle – just as you reach a sign saying Barbury 100yds ahead.
A lovely pitted four-sided sarsen which stands approximately three metres above the ground (though probably much larger). There are plaques attached to two sides of the stone:
Richard Jefferies
1848-1887
“It is eternity now.
I am in the midst of it, it is about me in the sunshine.”
Alfred Williams
1877-1930
“Still to find and still to follow
Joy in every hill and hollow
Company in Solitude”