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Drinking trough at Keeper's Corner, as seen in TQ3240 : Keeper's Corner.

The inscription reads: In memory of the mute fidelity of the 400,000 horses killed and wounded at the call of their masters during the South African war of 1899-1902 in a cause of which they knew nothing. This fountain is erected by a reverent fellow creature.

An inscription on the end reads WT 1903, referring to the said "reverent fellow creature", William Tebb, who lived at nearby Rede Hall from 1895 until his death in 1917. Originally from Manchester, he had made his fortune as a director of a bleaching chemical company in London. He was a social reformer, pacifist and anti-imperialist, opposing the South African War to which the inscription refers. He was also against vaccination, campaigning against compulsory smallpox vaccination on the grounds that it was a diversion from improved sanitation which would have had wider benefit.