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The inscription, written by Pope, is as follows:—

“Isaacus Newtonius

Quem Immortalem

Testantur Tempus, Natura, Coelum:

Mortalem

Hoc Marmor fatetur.

Nature, and Nature’s laws lay hid in night;

God said let Newton be! and all was light.”

His statue is also in the ante-chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge, so eloquently described by Wordsworth as

“The marble index of a mind for ever

Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.”

Newton is represented standing, and faces to the east, and of the other seated figures in the ante-chapel, which all face north or south, the latest addition and the finest work is Thornicroft’s statue of another Lincolnshire celebrity Alfred Lord Tennyson. This is an admirable likeness; the best view of it is from the east side.

West of Woolsthorpe is Buckminster, just over the border, but remarkable for having once had a beacon on the tower. The circular chimney of the Watcher’s shelter still stands in the north-west angle. At Weldon near Kettering is a lantern fifteen feet high with a cupola put up 200 years ago to guide folk through Rockingham Forest. It is lit now on New Year’s Eve.