Parish chiefs threatening to move Buckinghamshire’s most famed traffic obstruction have given in to locals threatening to chain themselves to their revered ancient glacial erractic but what next for this mysterious little boulder?There is one fact that is distinguished never to forget about the Soulbury stone,according to Victor Wright, chair of the parish council of the small Buckinghamshire village in which it is situated: “The Soulbury stone never loses.”
It is a lesson that has been learned the tough way, and he says,by generations of young men returning from the Boot, the village pub, or who attempt to hurdle it and “attain their undercarriage some damage”. Older village residents,it’s said, can remember when two army tanks were defeated after they tried to dislodge it during the war. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com