SOUTH WEST
■Distance: 5 miles/8.1km ■Time: 2½ hours ■Grade: Easy
CHOSEN BY… ROBERT HESKETH
Following the stone (Point 1) marks the near Clouds Hill. A memorial after a motorcycle accident a few weeks later he died undoubted talents, but only rich new possibilities for his The future appeared to offer retired to Clouds Hill in 1935. his RAF service, Lawrence furnished. Having completed restored, altered and this tiny cottage, which he is deeply impressed upon Arabia’. His strong personality and enigmatic ‘Lawrence of T.E. Lawrence, the legendary (National Trust), the retreat of heath, passing by Clouds Hill route explores woodland and Lawrence Trail, this accident scene, but his grave is at Moreton cemetery (Point 4).
Lawrence’s funeral drew many mourners, including Winston and Clementine Churchill, who knew him well. The funeral also drew the national press. Inevitably, conspiracy theories about his sudden death arose which persist to the present day. It seems unlikely the possibility of his assassination will ever be firmly established – or conclusively and finally debunked. More than a century after the First World War and nearly 60 years after David Lean’s coup de cinema, Lawrence of Arabia, interest in T.E. Lawrence is as strong as ever.
Take signed path by Lawrence’s memorial stone ‘Lawrence Trail Clouds Hill’. Continue past second memorial stone
