Highways and Byways in Surrey

The Pageant of the Road.--Canterbury Pilgrims.--Henry II. barefoot.--Choosing the Road.--Wind on the Hill.--Wine in the Valley.--_Pilgrim's Progress._--Shalford Fair.--A doubtfu...

The joining of the ways.--Georgian poke bonnets.--The Castle.--Kings at Farnham.--Poet Soldiers.--A glorious battle.--The Bishop's artillery.--Paradise and the Bull's Eye.--Izaa...

Farnham has expanded to the south-east, and not prettily. But it is the key to the great stretch of pine wood, heather and bogland which lies to the south about Frensham, Tilfor...

Jonathan Swift, Secretary.--A new Tale of a Tub.--Sir William Temple, Essayist.--Swift's "Stella."--A heart under a sundial.--Dorothy Osborne.--Mother Ludlam's Cave--Waverley Ab...

Whitewaysend.--Tongham.--A carillon of sheep-bells.--Timber-carting.--Falling on board a transport.--Cottages under the Hog's Back.--Puttenham. The Maypole at Compton.--The two-...

The prettiest High Street in the south of England.--Guilou, Wey, and Wye.--The Castle.--A legend of murder.--Looking at St. Christopher.--Royal hunters.--Stephen Langton.--Cloth...

The prettiest town Cobbett ever saw.--Semaphores and the THING.--The Road on the Ridge.--Newlands Corner.--The Father of the Forest.--Pilgrims to St. Martha's.--A quiet churchya...

Shalford and its Stocks.--The Common.--Vanity Fair.--The Court of Dusty-Feet.--Unstead in floodwater.--Dog Smith.--Bramley Mill.--Wonersh, Ignorsh, Ognersh.--A village well care...

Chilworth.--Gunpowder and Banknotes.--Cashier for fifty years.--The Evelyns' Powdermills.--Albury's chimneys.--A Yew hedge quarter of a mile long.--Sherborne ponds: the Silent P...

Merrow.--The Horse and Groom.--Mr. Kipling on Surrey downs.--Clandon Park.--The village mole-catcher.--A fearful battle.--February sunshine.--Wide Ploughs.--Thomas Goffe and Tho...

A country town.--Peter the Great's breakfast.--Pykes in the Wey.--Dogs and fish-carts.--Off to Botany Bay.--Owen Manning.--A most malignant priest.--Eashing Bridges.--Peperharow...

Six hundred feet up.--Haslemere's Museum.--A strange Tomb.--The Lion.--The Cow.--Snipes in Conduit Street.--Shottermill Trout.--Hindhead.--The Riddle of a Crime.--A deserted Roa...

Painters among heather.--The Devil's Jumps.--The Devil redivivus.--Cobbett at Thursley.--A superb belfry.--The Sailor's Grave.--Pig-iron and hammers.--The natterjack at eve.--A...

The Wild Garden of Surrey.--Birds and their valentines.--Nightingales at Dunsfold.--Alfold Stocks.--Three yews in a line.--The King's Evil.--Alfold industries.--A dry canal.--Ch...

Cranleigh lies on the edge of the Fold country, neither in it nor of it. In the Fold country the villages are set deep in woodlands and grass fields, and the railway runs too fa...

Through the hayfields.--The Abbey.--John de Rutherwyk.--Cowley in his garden.--Bill Sikes at Chertsey.--The curfew.--A duel of hearts.--The Chertsey legend.--St. Anne's Hill.--D...

A Georgian village.--The Kembles.--A prophetic lament.--Wey no more.--The Brooklands bucket.--Exiles.--Riddles of spelling.--A royal palace.--The Duchess's Monkeys.--Oatlands ce...

Virginia Water.--Ruined Temples.--Grebes and Pheasants.--Bishop's Gate.--Shelley's "Alastor."--"Perdita" at Englefield Green.--Mrs. Oliphant's Neighbours.--Runemede rolled.--Egh...

Euclid in Surrey.--Chobham.--Bagshot Rhododendrons.--Vultures of the Road.--The Golden Farmer.--Catching the Small-pox.--A contented Family.--The Queen's Bon-graces.--A Gentle H...

Old Woking.--Behind the Veil.--A Royal Palace.--Necropolis.--When not to dig a grave.--"Lumpy" Stevens.--The Ripley Road.--The Anchor and the Talbot Dog.--An Open Box.--Teal by...

The Woking of the Surrey Thames.--Peasants in the field.--Ham House.--The Cabal.--Petersham.--Richmond Hill.--_The Heart of Midlothian._--Deer in the sunlight.--Queen Elizabeth...

Kingston Old and New.--The Stone.--The Sexton's Escape.--Throwing over the Church.--Ducking a Scold.--Aaron Evans's shot at a Cormorant.--The Dog Whipper.--A Feast of the Church...

Surbiton trains.--Thames Ditton.--Parks for trotting ponies.--A forlorn garden.--The Dandies' Fete.--Graveyard poetry.--The Pleasance of a Ferry.--Giggs Hill cricket.--Ditton Tu...

The Widest Street in Surrey.--A lucky find.--Barbara Villiers.--Pepys at the Wells.--Nell Gwynne.--Aldermen and lazy ladies.--Epsom's fall.--A knavish apothecary.--Baron Swasso,...

Ewell.--A Clear Stream.--Nonsuch Palace.--The Right Use for a King's Gift.--Cheam.--Satin Haycocks.--A Chained Anachronism.--Chessington.--Dancing Round the Mulberry Tree.--A Ho...

The Millpond.--Magic water.--Leatherhead Bridge.--The Running Horse.--The Tunnyng of Elinour Rumming.--Noppy Ale.--A penny a coffin.--Deflected chancels.--Judge Jeffreys and his...

Slyfields.--A Great Bowl of Silver.--The Heir.--The Danger of Parish Relief.--Stoke D'Abernon Church.--A Knightly Memorial.--Stolen Woad.--Sire Richard le Petit.--Long Sermons.-...

The Roman road over the hill.--The Swallows of the Mole.--An imperial draught.--Mickleham.--Fanny Burney.--A Story of letters.--Juniper Hall and its cedars.--Norbury Park.--How...

Mr. Stiggins at the Marquis of Granby--A Ruin.--The battle of Dorking.--Real fighting.--The Table and Cellar.--Water-souchy, a delicious dish.--Wild cherries.--Dorking snails.--...

Denbies.--Tea veniente die.--A Temple of gloom.--Wotton House.--John Evelyn.--A child of five.--The Crossways.--Dabchicks in the Tillingbourne.--Friday Street.--A Swiss tarn.--L...

Nicknames.--Anastasius Hope.--Deepdene.--Mr. Howard's Garden.--Betchworth Chestnuts and Castle.--Brockham badgers.--The Straw-yards.--Bakers among the roses.--Leigh: Lie.--Leigh...

The Battle of Ockley.--The Stone Street.--The prettiest green in Surrey.--Sweethearts and Roses.--When the Gentlemen went by.--An engaging family history.--Oakwood: a forest cha...

Reigate Castle.--De Warenne.--A Swashbuckler and a Swordsman.--The Reigate Caves.--Lord Holland's soldiering.--Pilgrims at the Red Cross.--General of the Royale Navey.--Olde Dut...

Croydon Palace.--A Neglected Relic.--Queen Elizabeth's Waiters.--John Whitgift.--Hospital, chapel, and school.--A Record of Cricket.--Macaulay's tyrant.--Izaak Walton differs.--...

Beddington Hall.--Careful Dissipation.--The Polite Verger.--A punning epitaph.--Actaeon and Artemis for sale.--Carshalton pools.--A dry well.--William Quelche's Apology.--The ru...

It is possible to escape from Croydon's railway-stations. You can push out from its ringing streets into green and quiet country, and find little old churches within a mile or t...

Restored church windows.--A Cow for an apprentice.--A Horley eleven.--Thunderfield Castle.--Horne.--Outwood Common.--A daring jump.--Over the Green.--Burstow's Astronomer.--Caus...

The White Hart at Godstone.--Cobbett's violets.--Bletchingley.--Beagles and Foxhounds.--Dr. Nathaniel Harris.--Begging the Love of Neighbours.--A gratious woman.--Swift and a ge...

A chapter of Hume.--The Village Cage.--The Copthorne Poachers.--A shop for three centuries.--The green-faced Soldan.--A griffin's hoof.--Second-best fish.--Eleanor Cobham and th...

East of Godstone.--Tandridge.--The _Notebook of a Surrey Justice_.--Sturdy rogues.--Oxted.--A Rustic Guildford.--Mittens and corduroys.--Limpsfield.--Self-criticism.--_The Old O...

Growing London.--Cigars by Dulwich Valley.--Edward Allen, Actor, Bear-baiter, Dog-fancier and Founder of a College.--Godd's Guift.--Dulwich buttercups.--Dr. Johnson.--A Prayer i...

Mortlake.--The Boat Race.--A duel.--Putney-by-the-sea.--Punch and Judy.--Kennington.--Gallows and faggots.--The proper way to subscribe to a Cricket Club.--Camberwell Beauties.-...