# Surrey Painted by Sutton Palmer; Described by A.R. Hope Moncrieff

Author: Moncrieff, A. R. Hope (Ascott Robert Hope), 1846-1927; Palmer, Sutton, 1854-1933 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Travel Writing

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46971

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## Summary

Surrey is but a small county, the latitudes or longitudes of which a good walker could traverse in a day; but perhaps no other in England can be found so close packed with scenes of manifold beauty. Among the "Home Counties," at least, it seems best to answer Mr. P. G. Hamerton's criterion of a perfect country as "one which, in a day's drive, or half a day's, gives you an entirely new horizon, so that you may feel in a different region, and have all the refreshment of a total change of scene within a few miles of your own house." Its over-the-way neighbour Middlesex, which Cobbett, in his slap-dash style, puts down as all ugly, is at least comparatively tame and monotonous; and one must g...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/surrey-painted-by-sutton-palmer-described-by-a-r-hope-moncrieff-46971/chapters/1/index.md)