A Leisurely Tour in England

I left Banbury one sunshiny morning, shaking "the very dust" of the town from my wheels "as a testimony against it," and driving by its modern cross I took the road before me, l...

A quiet valley--The importance of the unimportant--Moated and haunted houses--Romances in stone--A farmhouse holiday--A picture-book village--A matter of Fate--The tomb of Gibbo...

Mallwyd--Falling waters--Dinas Mawddwy--Amongst the moors and mountains--A wild drive--A farmer's logic--A famous old inn--A fisherman's tale--A Roman inscribed stone--Brass to...

A town with two names--An amusing mistake--Abbot's Bromley and its quaint horn dance--Dr. Johnson doing penance at Uttoxeter--Burton-on-Trent--The "Hundreds All" milestone--Indo...

That evening in the coffee-room of the "George" there was only one other guest besides myself, and we sat apart at either end of a long table taking our meals in unfriendly sile...

From Worthing our road led for three or four miles along "the beached margin of the sea," a straight stretch of dreary and shelterless shingly road, looking doubly dreary after...

Dane Hill--Epitaphs--A wild bit of country--Ashdown Forest--Exploring--The use of maps--Curious inn signs--A Tudor home--The Devil's door--A medieval priest and guest house--Old...

Place names--Bell ringing for lost travellers--A Robber's Grave and its story--Wild Wales--A picturesque interior--The fascination of the moors--Machynlleth--A Royal and ancient...

Leaving Coate we soon reached the erst quiet little town of Swindon; it is no longer quiet or little, but looms large and ugly--seen from afar a blot on the fair landscape; the...

"Great-upon-Little"--The woods of Sussex--A maze of lanes--Frensham Pond--A holiday haunt--The legend of the shivering reeds--Rural inns--Roughing it (?)--Waverley Abbey--The mo...

The Vale of Evesham--A stormy drive--An angler's inn--A big fish--Dating from "the flood"!--Fishermen's tales--The joys of "the gentle craft"--Hotel visitors' books--A "quiet da...

Madeley Court--Chat with a collier--The miner's rule of life--Charles II. in hiding--The building of Boscobel--The story of a moated house--A stirring episode--A startling disco...

A wonderful collection of tombs--A tombstone inscription by Shakespeare--A leper's door--Relics--Manufacturing the antique--Curiosity shops--The Golden Chapel--"The Great Bell o...

Little country towns--The romance of the ferry--"The Bear" at Woodstock--Curious conditions of tenure--Where the Black Prince was born--Islip--The mystery of Joseph's Stone--An...

An old coaching inn--The resurrection of the road--Far from anywhere--The charm of the unexpected--A historic milestone--"Mine host" of past days--Our port-wine drinking ancesto...

Red Castle--A stately ruin--Old houses and new owners--The joy of discovery--High Ercall and its story--Mills and millers--The life of a stone-breaker--Old folk-songs--Haughmond...

A tramp's story--A relic of a famous sea-fight--A tame road--Inn gardens--New landlords and old traditions--Chichester market-cross--A wind-swept land--"Dull and dreary Bognor"-...

There are many ways of exploring the country: one may walk, cycle, ride horseback, or drive a horse in some conveyance, go by crawling caravan or speedy motor-car--each to his f...

An inn of the old-fashioned sort--A chat with "mine host"--A weird experience--Ghost stories--An ancient rectory house--A quaint interior--A haunted passage--Lost in a fog--The...

The Meon Valley--Warnford--A hidden church--A house "a million years old"!--A Saxon sun-dial--A ruined home--Corhampton and its Saxon church--A modern "Naboth's Vineyard"--An ou...

Leaving Haughmond to its ancient peace, and finding the road we were on led to Shrewsbury, we took a byway to our left, chancing where it might go. We did not select our road, w...

Travel in the old days--Sequestered Sussex--Country homes--A mellow land--A gibbet post and its story--Chiddingly and its church--The Pelham buckle--Wayside crosses--St. Dunstan...

An old coaching inn--The resurrection of the road--Far from anywhere--The charm of the unexpected--A historic milestone--"Mine host" of past days--Our port-wine drinking ancesto...

The Vale of Evesham--A stormy drive--An angler's inn--A big fish--Dating from "the flood"!--Fishermen's tales--The joys of "the gentle craft"--Hotel visitors' books--A "quiet da...

Madeley Court--Chat with a collier--The miner's rule of life--Charles II. in hiding--The building of Boscobel--The story of a moated house--A stirring episode--A startling disco...

Little country towns--The romance of the ferry--"The Bear" at Woodstock--Curious conditions of tenure--Where the Black Prince was born--Islip--The mystery of Joseph's Stone--An...

An inn of the old-fashioned sort--A chat with "mine host"--A weird experience--Ghost stories--An ancient rectory house--A quaint interior--A haunted passage--Lost in a fog--The...

"Great-upon-Little"--The woods of Sussex--A maze of lanes--Frensham Pond--A holiday haunt--The legend of the shivering reeds--Rural inns--Roughing it(?)--Waverley Abbey--The mon...

Mallwyd--Falling waters--Dinas Mawddwy--Amongst the moors and mountains--A wild drive--A farmer's logic--A famous old inn--A fisherman's tale--A Roman inscribed stone--Brass to...

A wonderful collection of tombs--A tombstone inscription by Shakespeare--A leper's door--Relics--Manufacturing the antique--Curiosity shops--The Golden Chapel--"The Great Bell o...

The Meon Valley--Warnford--A hidden church--A house "a million years old"!--A Saxon sun-dial--A ruined home--Corhampton and its Saxon church--A modern "Naboth's Vineyard"--An ou...

Dane Hill--Epitaphs--A wild bit of country--Ashdown Forest--Exploring--The use of maps--Curious inn signs--A Tudor home--The Devil's door--A medieval priest and guest house--Old...

A town with two names--An amusing mistake--Abbot's Bromley and its quaint horn dance--Dr. Johnson doing penance at Uttoxeter--Burton-on-Trent--The "Hundreds All" milestone--Indo...

A quiet valley--The importance of the unimportant--Moated and haunted houses--Romances in stone--A farmhouse holiday--A picture-book village--A matter of Fate--The tomb of Gibbo...

Place names--Bell ringing for lost travellers--A Robber's Grave and its story--Wild Wales--A picturesque interior--The fascination of the moors--Machynlleth--A Royal and ancient...

Red Castle--A stately ruin--Old houses and new owners--The joy of discovery--High Ercall and its story--Mills and millers--The life of a stone-breaker--Old folk-songs--Haughmond...

A tramp's story--A relic of a famous sea-fight--A tame road--Inn gardens--New landlords and old traditions--Chichester market-cross--A wind-swept land--"Dull and dreary Bognor"-...