Farley Mount is a hill in

Hampshire Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Berkshire to the north, Surrey and West Sussex to the east, the Isle of Wight across the Solent to the south, ...

that gives its name to Farley Mount Country Park, about four miles west of the city of

Winchester Winchester (, ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city in Hampshire, England. The city lies at the heart of the wider City of Winchester, a local government Districts of England, district, at the western end of the South Downs N ...

. A

trig point A triangulation station, also known as a trigonometrical point, and sometimes informally as a trig, is a fixed surveying station, used in geodetic surveying and other surveying projects in its vicinity. The station is usually set up by a map ...

and an 18th-century monument stand on the summit, above sea-level.

Monument

On top of the mount is a

folly In architecture, a folly is a building constructed primarily for decoration, but suggesting through its appearance some other purpose, or of such extravagant appearance that it transcends the range of usual garden buildings. Eighteenth-cent ...

, which is a monument and burial place marker to a horse named 'Beware Chalk Pit', which carried its owner to a racing victory in 1734, a year after falling into a deep chalk pit while out hunting. Aerial_shot_of_Farley_Mount_and_Monument

Aerial_shot_of_Farley_Mount_and_Monument

The monument is the subject of

Timothy Corsellis Timothy Corsellis (27 January 1921 – 10 October 1941) was an English poet of World War II. Early life Timothy John Manley Corsellis was born on 27 January 1921 in Eltham, London, the third of the four children of Helen (née Bendall) and Do ...

' poem 'the first great goodbye'. Corsellis, an alumnus of Winchester College who lived in the early–mid-20th century, wrote "I'll plant myself on Cheesefoot Head/and miles of Hampshire will I tread,/I'll turn my nose to Farley Mount/No ugly bypass need I count, And in a second I'll be there/ Or in the beech woods standing near". There are plaques on the interior and exterior of the monument, which read: The obelisk is Grade II listed. A short distance to the north-west is a hilltop enclosure, a scheduled monument thought to date from the Iron Age.

References

{{reflist Hills of Hampshire Country parks in Hampshire