Farley Mount, built on the highest point in Farley Mount Country Park along the Clarendon Way walk. Hampshire, England, UK
The Country Park is named after the famous monument to a horse, named "Beware Chalk Pit", which carried its owner to a racing victory in 1734, a year after having fallen into a chalk pit whilst out fox-hunting The inscription on the plaque on the north wall reads: Underneath lies buried a horse, the property of Paulet St. John Esq., that in the month of September 1733 leaped into a chalk pit twenty-five feet deep afoxhuntiing 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 was entered in the name of "Beware Chalk Pit".
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Location: THE CLARENDON WAY, HAMPSHIRE, ENGLAND, UK
Photo credit: © Gregory Davies / Alamy / Afripics
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