Walk around Tolworth 6 June 2026

 This guided walk,.in the footsteps of Richard Jefferies' Tolworth years, will be led by local ecologist and Richard Jefferies Society member, Alison Fure. 

Please note that you need to book a place if you wish to attend. Numbers are limited to a maximum of 30 people for insurance reasons. Email bentonbat@gmail.com.

An Ecological Vision of Earth

 

W.H. Hudson (1841−1922) should need no introduction to Richard Jefferies' followers. Hudson was born in Argentina and spent his boyhood and youth on the pampas of La Plata, largely engaged in natural history. He came to England aged thirty-two. His books such as Green Mansions and A Shepherd’s Life have become classics, whilst Hudson has been widely acknowledged as a pioneer ecologist, as well as a prose-poet of the English landscape and its wildlife. 

Brian Morris, a Richard Jefferies Society member, has written a new biography of Hudson titled An Ecological Vision of Earth: The Life and Thought of W.H. Hudson (Norfolk: Reuben Books, 2026). Jefferies’ name crops up more than one hundred times in the book that includes a section on both writers. The crossovers with Jefferies’ writing, thoughts and life are many. 

An Ecological Vision of Earth is both readable and scholarly and offers an introduction to this remarkable naturalist.  It can be purchased via Paypal at Reuben Books (UK postage only).

ISBN: 978-1-9993172-8-7, 276pp., softback, £17 (incl UK postage).

New meeting room for the Richard Jefferies Museum

 Please help towards funding a new meeting room at the Richard Jefferies Museum. 

Artist's impression of the proposed building.

Richard Jefferies' birthplace in Coate, Swindon has hosted a small museum, in his memory, since 1960. It has grown from strength to strength but there is a desperate need for a meeting room and creative arts centre.  

For more information about the project and to donate go to https://www.richardjefferies.org/caw