Category: Travel Writing
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2. Chapter 25. _Wind._--The prevailing direction of the wind, as recorded at Berkhampstead, St. Albans and Bennington, is from S.W. (sixty-one days in the year) to W. (sixty-two days), and...
3. Chapter 3There are _windmills_ at Cromer, Albury, Goff's Oak, Anstey, Arkley, Much Hadham, Weston, Tring and Bushey Heath. _Water mills_ are too numerous to specify, there being several...
4. Chapter 4AMWELL, GREAT, a parish and village 1½ mile S.E. of Ware Station, G.E.R., is very prettily situated near the New River, and is known by name to many who have never visited the n...
5. Chapter 5BATTLE OF BARNET.--Of this engagement, so familiar by name, very little is known accurately. Early in the spring of 1471, Edward IV., assisted in his schemes by the Duke of Burg...
6. Chapter 6BUSHEY is a large village, now practically the S.E. suburb of Watford. The station (L.&N.W.R.) is in the hollow between the village itself and High Street, Watford; cyclists mus...
7. Chapter 7GILSTON (2 miles N. from Burnt Hill Station (Essex) and about 2 miles S.E. from Widford village) is a scattered parish. Chauncy says it was probably waste ground at the time of...
8. Chapter 8Hemel Hempstead, according to Norden, owed its name (Heanhamsted) to the high hemp-land on the E. side of the town. Offa, King of the Mercians, gave six houses at _Hemelhamstede...
9. Chapter 9_Hunsdon House_ stands between the church and Gilston Park. During the reign of Edward IV., Sir John Oldhall "built here a fair House after the mode of a Castle ... which buildi...
10. Chapter 10On _Metley Hill_, between the Icknield Way and the village of Wallington, may be seen Bush Barrow, one of the many ancient mounds in the county concerning which so little is known.
11. Chapter 11RADWELL, on the Beds border, is in a charming district, threaded by the little river Ivel, 1½ mile N.N.W. from Baldock. The mill is reached by turning left after passing The Com...
12. Chapter 12Continuing our way up the market-place we pass the _Town Hall_ or _Court House_ on the right, an Italian structure dating from 1826, and the broad St. Peter's Street opens befor...
13. Chapter 13ST. PAUL'S WALDEN (4 miles S.W. from Stevenage Station, G.N.R.) is a large and scattered parish; much of it is very picturesque. The church, which was restored twenty years ago,...
14. Chapter 14WALLINGTON (3½ miles E. from Baldock) lies in one of the most quiet districts of the county, a district almost entirely agricultural. The village is small; a few cottages are an...
15. Chapter 15WORMLEY (1 mile S.W. from Broxbourne Station, G.E.R.) is on the New River. The church is at _Wormley Bury_, ½ mile W. from the village; it is very ancient, but was restored twen...
16. Chapter 16=Wight, Isle Of.= By GEORGE CLINCH, F.S.A.Scot., F.G.S. With 28 Illustrations by F. D. Bedford and from Photographs, 2 Maps and 3 Plans. _Second Edition._ 4s. net.