The Edward Thomas Fellowship

Sadly, trains no longer stop at Adlestrop, the station that is the subject of Edward Thomas’ best-known poem. That was lost to the Beeching axe in 1966, but there are plenty of other places where you can read his poems in the setting that they describe. Several of these have been linked by a circular walk, starting at the church of All Saints in Steep, the Hampshire village where Thomas and his family lived from 1906 until he was killed in action at Arras on 9 April 1917. The Poet’s Stone, erected by poet John Masefield in 1937 to the memory of Edward Thomas. It stands near the summit of Shoulder of Mutton Hill. Thomas is buried in Agny Military Cemetery, France, but is commemorate