its common, with a windmill and the little Chart Church as landmarks to the left, then up an avenue-like road to Kent Hatch, where the wooded heath of Crockham Hill slopes suddenly to the Kentish Weald. A most beautiful round might be made of this excursion into Kent, by taking the path through Squerryes Park, behind Crockham Hill, to descend into the pretty town of Westerham, with its memories of Wolfe, from which some three miles bring one back over the Surrey border to Limpsfield.
But there still remains to be seen the south-eastern corner of the Surrey Weald, containing some notable sights. For them, from the “Plumbers’ Arms” cross-roads at Limpsfield, let the traveller trace out his way along labyrinthine byroads near the straight course of the L.B. & S.C. rail southward. Three miles on, a little to the west of this line, soon after it has been intersected by the S.E.R., he will find the old-world village of Crowhurst standing up among the remains of Wealden woods. The restored Church has two brasses, and one of the cast-iron tomb-stones common in this Black Country of old days; but its lion is the churchyard yew, taken as the oldest and largest in Surrey, thirty-two feet in girth, its fame sometimes confused with that other great yew’s, that distinguishes likewise the Sussex Crowhurst. The yew-hedged farm close by was the manor-house of the Angell family, whose name revives in the highly respectable but commonplace Angell Road, Brixton. A mile farther south, to the right of the road, lies Crowhurst Place, one of the old moated granges of Surrey, still a delight to the artistic and antiquarian eye. A little more to the south, and rather farther off the road, Moat Farm is another old house to be sought out; and indeed the whole of this district makes a happy hunting-ground for the sketcher or photographer.
The road from Crowhurst goes on with the railway to Lingfield. If one have strayed as far west as the high-road through Godstone, at Blindley Heath a byroad turns off it for Lingfield, to which a footpath leads from Moat Farm. Lingfield is a place of varied note, not least for its quaint timber-fronted houses, and its “Star” inn, a type of hostelry now rare about London. The noble Church, formerly a collegiate one, is to be visited for its show of Cobham monuments and brasses, and other old features. The old College has disappeared; but a modern foundation here is the “Homestead” colony for the afflicted in mind, body, or estate, a praiseworthy effort of the Christian Union for Social Service. Then, as the nettle grows near the dock, Lingfield has its noted racecourse, which may have ruined such lives as that colony strives to reclaim. What looks like a small-pox hospital to the south of Lingfield station turns out to be the Grand Stand and stables that bring noisy crowds to this else peaceful neighbourhood.
On a height to the south of the racecourse stands the last and latest village of Surrey, making a strong contrast with its time-weathered neighbours. This is the group of bungalows originally entitled Bellaggio, which a generation or so ago was built as a sort of co-operative country home for Londoners, standing in its own grounds round the tower of a club-house. The enterprise did not succeed very well; and the place has sought to gain a fresh start under the name of Dormans Park, the club being turned into an hotel, that does good business at the race meetings, and at other times would make a centre for exploring the skirts of Surrey, Kent, and Sussex, here converging. Beyond the grounds, ornamented with wood and water, across a dip rises in Sussex the edge of the Forest sand ridge, where the towers of East Grinstead beacon us to “fresh woods and pastures new” of a county no less beautiful than Surrey.
But the reader must not be led farther afield, when space fails me to do justice to my proper theme. I have said nothing of Farley and Chelsham, that look so finely over Kent from the high and dry north-east corner of Surrey. I have barely mentioned the wooded and parked northern edge of the Downs which, so far back as Defoe’s time, could be spoken of as one line of gentlemen’s houses between Guildford and Leatherhead. I have not said enough of the stretch of broken land between the Wey valley and Leith Hill, nor of picturesque old villages and “greens” hidden among its wild commons and copses. Other points may have been unwillingly or unwittingly passed over, as not readily brought into view from the various routes by which we have crossed nearly every part of Surrey. But enough has been said at least to hint what are the varied leaves of chalk, sand, and clay with which nature makes up such a noble bouquet of landscapes laid at the feet of London.
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, V, W.
Abinger, 175
Addington Park, 244
Addlestone, 31
Albury, 127
Aldershot, 219
Anningsley, 29
Anstiebury Camp, 164
Ashtead, 157
Bagshot Heath, 210
Banstead, 230
Barn Elms, 52
Barnes, 50
Basingstoke Canal, 85
Battersea, 54
Beddington, 228
Bellaggio, 251
Betchworth, 108
Bisley Camp, 212
Blackdown, 193
Blackheath, 84
Bletchingly, 140
Boating on Thames, 36
Botley Hill, 141
Box Hill, 108, 134
Bramley, 69
Brighton Road, the, 224
Brockham Green, 108
Brookwood, 213
Burford Bridge, 107
Burstow, 238
Byfleet, 85
Camberley, 210
Camilla Lacey, 104
Cane’s Hill, 240
Capel, 110
Carshalton, 228
Caterham, 241
Chaldon, 138
Chalk Downs, the, 5
Chantries Wood, 123
Charlwood, 110
Charterhouse School, 67
Cheam, 230
Chelsham, 252
Chertsey, 28
Chessington, 149
Chiddingfold, 190
Chilworth, 124
Chipstead, 240
Chobham, 204
—— Ridges, 211
Claremont, 94
Cobham, 96
Coldharbour, 164
Compton, 119
Cooper’s Hill, 22
Coulsdon, 240
Cowey Stakes, 35
Cranleigh, 180
Crohamhurst, 245
Crooksbury Hill, 64
Crowhurst, 249
Croydon, 242
Deepdene, 162
Denbies, 133
Devil’s Jumps, 194
—— Punch-bowl, 184
Dorking, 159
Dormans, 251
Earlswood Common, 236
Eashing, 66
Effingham, 84
Egham, 25
Elstead, 64
Ember River, 89
Englefield Green, 23
Epsom, 149
Esher, 91
Evershed’s Rough, 133
Ewell, 147
Ewhurst, 180
Farley, 252
Farnborough, 218
Farnham, 59, 117
Farthing Downs, 240
Felday, 178
“Fold” Country, 181
Footpaths, 20
Frensham, 197
Friday Street, 174
Frimley, 218
Gatton, 136
Gatwick, 237
Gibbet Hill, 188
Godalming, 68
Godstone, 248
Gomshall, 139
Grayshott, 195
Great Bookham, 98
Guildford, 71
Ham House, 44
Hampton Court, 38
Haslemere, 193
Headley-on-the Hill, 158
Hersham, 95
High Down Ball, 70
Hindhead, 183
Hogsback, the, 117
Hogsmill River, 148
Holloway College, 15
Holmbury Hill, 178
Holmesdale Valley, 134
Holmwood, 169
Horley, 237
Horsley, 84
Juniper Hill, 105
Kenley, 242
Kent Hatch, 247
Kew, 48
Kingston-on-Thames, 40
Leatherhead, 99
Leigh, 108
Leith Hill, 167
Limpsfield, 247
Lingfield, 250
London suburbs, 29
“Lonesome,” 12
Long Ditton, 39
Losely, 121
Magna Charta Island, 25
Marden Park, 140
Merstham, 135
Morton, 146
Mickleham, 101
Milford, 70
Mitcham, 227
Mole, the, 87-110
Molesey, 87
Moor Park, 61
Morden, 147
Mortlake, 50
Necropolis, the, 213
Newark Priory, 83
Newdigate, 110
Newlands Corner, 124
Nonsuch Park, 148
Norbury Park, 100
Oakwood, 166
Oatlands Park, 33
Ockham, 83
Ockley, 165
Oxshott, 97
Oxted, 248
Pease Marsh, 70
Peperharow, 66
Petersham, 44
Pilgrims’ Way, 111-143
Pirbright, 83
Pirford, 218
Polesden, 103
Population, 11
Purley, 240
Putney, 53
Puttenham, 118
Ranmore Common, 133
Redhill, 239
Redland Woods, 169
Reigate, 135, 223
Richmond, 44
Riddlesdown, 241
Ripley, 83
Rivers of Surrey, 7, 57
Roman Road, the, 144-166
Rotherhithe, 55
Runnymede, 24
St. Anne’s Hill, 29
St. Catherine’s Chapel, 122
St. George’s Hill, 32
St. Martha’s Chapel, 123
Sanderstead, 246
Sandown Park, 90
Seale, 118
Send, 82
Shalford, 122
Shere, 130
Shirley, 245
Shottermill, 189
“Silent Pool,” the, 129
Stoke D’Abernon, 97
“Stone Street,” 145
Surbiton, 39
Suspension Bridge view, 233
Sutton, 229
Sutton Place, 80
“Swallows” (of the Mole), 100
Tadworth, 232
Tandridge, 248
Tatsfield, 142
Thames, the, 22
Thames Ditton, 39
Thursley, 187
Tilburstow Hill, 248
Tilford, 64
Tillingbourne, the, 127
Titsey, 141
Towns and villages, 12
Virginia Water, 24
Waggoner’s Wells, 195
Wallington, 228
Walton-on-Thames, 35
Walton-on-the-Hill, 232
Wandle, the, 228, 245
Warlingham, 246
Watts Gallery, the, 120
Waverley Abbey, 62
Weald, the, 6
Westcott, 170
Wey River, 58-86
Weybridge, 32
White Hill, 139
Wimbledon, 41
Windlesham, 210
Windsor Park, 24
Wisley, 84
Witley, 189
Witley Common, 199
Woking, 82
Woldingham, 141
“Wolsey’s Tower,” 90
Wonersh, 74
Woodmansterne, 231
Worcester Park, 148
Wotton, 172
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