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The Hastings Road and the "Happy Springs of Tunbridge"

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A road-book itinerary that traces an old turnpike from the suburbs toward the coast, blending close descriptions of steep gradients, villages, inns and countryside with antiquarian and historical anecdotes. It pairs topographical curiosity and traveller’s impressions—especially of cycling and early motoring—with sketches of local architecture, moated sites, coach-era relics and ecclesiastical memorials. Short historical notes on medieval warfare and regional memory punctuate chapters of social color and rural customs, producing an episodic, practical and observant account of landscape, everyday life and the changing character of an ancient highway.

SEPARATE PLATES
Entrance to Hastings, by Minnis Rock and the old London Road Frontispiece
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Lewisham 19
Entrance to the Widows’ College 27
In the First Quadrangle, Widows’ College, Bromley 31
The Road across Bromley Common 45
Knockholt Beeches 59
An old Wayside Cottage, below Polhill 67
The South Front, Knole (Photo C. Essenhigh Corke & Co.) 99
The Pantiles, Tunbridge Wells 127
The Toad Rock 135
Kent 149
Lamberhurst 155
Scotney Castle 161
Weird Oast-houses, Lamberhurst 165
The Moated Castle of Bodiam 183
Duke William comforts his Young Soldiers” (Central Incident of the Battle of Hastings. From the Bayeux Tapestry) 211
Battle Abbey 229
Hastings Old Town 261
ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT
Business-Card of the “Bolt-in-Tun” Coach Office 9
The Colfe Almshouses 22
The Old Toll-house, Pratt’s Bottom 56
A Phyllis of Knockholt 61
Longford 69
Riverhead 72
Sign of the “Blackboy” Inn 78
Sign of the “Bricklayers’ Arms” 79
Old Mansion, formerly the “Cats” Inn 81
Seal of Sevenoaks Grammar School 83
Knole, from the Road 89
The Gateway, Knole 92
The Stone Court, Knole 95
The “Dumb Bell” 101
The Seven Oaks 103
The “White Hart” Inn 105
River Hill and the Kentish Weald 110
Tonbridge Castle 114
The “Chequers,” Tonbridge 118
A Sporting Weather-vane 119
Church of King Charles the Martyr 124
Tunbridge Ware 133
Scene at “High Rocks” 138
The Marquis of Abergavenny’s “A” 139
The Neville Gate, Frant 140
The “Blue Boys” Inn 143
Bayham Abbey: Across the Water-meadows 158
Etchingham Church 172
The Ancient Vane, Etchingham 174
Brass of Sir William de Etchingham 175
The Fox preaching to the Geese 176
The Abbey Farm 179
William the Conqueror (Bayeux Tapestry) 198
Last Stand of the English (Bayeux Tapestry) 213
Flight of the English Churls (Bayeux Tapestry) 215
A Descendant of the Saxon Churls 227
Battle Church 232
A Bye-road at Battle 233
The Road past Crowhurst Park 235
Junction of Roads spoiled by Tramways, Baldslow 238
“Huz and Buz”: Entrance to Holmhurst 241
Queen Anne, at Holmhurst 245
Ruins of the Old Church, Ore 247
The Old London Road 249
All Saints’ 253
Old House, All Saints’ Street 258
Old Tackle-boxes, Hastings 265
St. Clement’s Church 279
A Slain Norman (Bayeux Tapestry) 284