Heytesbury
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Heytesbury is a village and a civil parish in Wiltshire, England. It lies on the north bank of the Wylye, about 3+1⁄2 miles south-east of the town of Warminster. The civil parish includes most of the
A late 18th-century former maltings
Church of St Peter and St Paul
Hospital of St John and St Katherine
Heytesbury lock-up
Siegfried Sassoon
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Siegfried Loraine Sassoon was an English war poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described
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…family. Sir William à Court was created a Baronet in 1795 and the Baronry of Heytesbury was created in 1828 for his son, also Sir William. The poet Siegfried Sassoon spent the latter part of his life at Heytesbury House, which he purchased in 1933. His son George Sassoon grew up there and inherited the house on his…
Portrait by George Charles Beresford, 1915
Sassoon (front) with his brother Hamo and other students on the morning after a college May Ball at Cambridge University in 1906
Portrait of Sassoon by Glyn Warren Philpot, 1917 (Fitzwilliam Museum)
An agreement from Arthur Quiller-Couch to Sassoon to write for the Daily Herald