CHAPTER XIX

Our National Possession 231

Index 243

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

1. Punting _Frontispiece_ PAGE 2. Thames Ditton v 3. Sutton Courtney, Culham Bridge 1 4. Pangbourne _Facing_ 4 5. Dorchester Abbey " 8 6. Day's Lock " 12 7. Near the Bridge, Sutton Courtney " 14 8. Streatley Inn " 18 9. Sandford Lock 25 10. Iffley _Facing_ 28 11. Radley College Boat-house " 34 12. Almshouses of Abingdon 37 13. Abingdon _Facing_ 38 14. The Mill at Abingdon " 40 15. Sutton Courtney Backwater " 42 16. Clifden Hampden from the Bridge " 44 17. Clifden Hampden " 46 18. Hurley 47 19. Cottages, Dorchester _Facing_ 48 20. White Hart Hotel, Dorchester " 50 21. Dorchester Backwater " 52 22. Danesfield 53 23. Wallingford _Facing_ 54 24. Streatley Mill " 56 25. Goring Bridge 57 26. Streatley _Facing_ 58 27. Goring Church " 60 28. Goring " 62 29. Pangbourne, from the Swan Hotel " 64 30. Whitchurch Lock " 64 31. Mapledurham Mill " 66 32. Evening 67 33. Caversham _Facing_ 70 34. Paddling 72 35. The Rose Garden at Sonning _Facing_ 72 36. Sonning " 76 37. St. George and the Dragon, Wargrave 80 38. The Church at Wargrave _Facing_ 80 39. Barges at Oxford 97 40. Red Lion Hotel, Henley _Facing_ 98 41. Henley Regatta " 100 42. Hambleden " 102 43. Medmenham Abbey 105 44. General View of Marlow _Facing_ 106 45. Quarry Woods " 108 46. Bisham Church " 110 47. Hurley Backwater " 112 48. Bisham Abbey " 114 49. Cookham, from above 128 50. Boulter's Lock, Ascot Sunday _Facing_ 128 51. Below Boulter's Lock " 130 52. Maidenhead " 132 53. Eton, from the Brocas 140 54. Windsor Castle _Facing_ 140 55. Windsor " 144 56. Eton Chapel, from the Fields " 148 57. Magna Charta Island 155 58. Hedsor Fishery 161 59. Temple Lock 167 60. Walton Bridge _Facing_ 172 61. Sunbury " 174 62. Hampton Court 177 63. Hampton Court, from the River _Facing_ 178 64. Marlow Church 205 65. Beyond Hammersmith Bridge _Facing_ 206 66. The Custom House " 208 67. Dutch Barges near the Tower " 210 68. The Tower of St. Magnus " 212 69. St. Paul's _Facing_ 214 70. The Houses of Parliament " 216 71. Westminster by Night " 218 72. Hay Barges near Westminster Bridge " 222 73. Chelsea Reach, with the Old Church " 226 74. View from Richmond Hill 231 75. From Battersea Bridge _Facing_ 232 _Sketch Map at end of Volume_

_The Illustrations in this volume were engraved and printed at the Menpes Press, Watford._