Siegfried Sassoon Lived at Heytesbury House from the early 1930s until his death in 1967
In Heytesbury Wood
Not less nor more than five and forty years ago
The old lord went along the ornamental ride;
For the last time he walked there, tired and very slow;
Saw the laburnum's golden chains, the glooming green
Of bowery box-trees; stood and looked farewell, and sighed
For roots that held his heart and summers that he'd seen.
Siegfried Sassoon CBE MC (1886-1967)