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SURVEY
OF
THE HIGH ROADS
OF
England and Wales.

PART THE FIRST.

COMPRISING THE COUNTIES OF

KENT, SURREY, SUSSEX, HANTS, WILTS, DORSET, SOMERSET,
DEVON, AND CORNWALL;

WITH

PART OF BUCKINGHAM AND MIDDLESEX.

PLANNED ON A SCALE OF ONE INCH TO A MILE.

EXHIBITING AT ONE VIEW

THE SEATS OF THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY,
WHETHER SITUATED ON, OR CONTIGUOUS TO, THE ROAD.

The various Branches of Roads and Towns to which they lead.

TOGETHER WITH

THE ACTUAL DISTANCE OF THE SAME FROM THE MAIN ROAD, RIVERS, NAVIGABLE CANALS, RAILWAYS, TURNPIKE GATES, &c. &c.

ACCOMPANIED BY

INDEXES,
TOPOGRAPHIC AND DESCRIPTIVE.

THE WHOLE
ENRICHED WITH A VARIETY OF VALUABLE AND ORIGINAL INFORMATION.

ARRANGED BY, AND UNDER THE DIRECTION OF,
EDWARD MOGG.

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LONDON:
PUBLISHED BY EDWARD MOGG, No. 51, CHARING CROSS.
1817.

TO
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS
THE PRINCE REGENT.

Sir,

Your Royal Highness having graciously condescended to extend your august patronage and protection to this work, I cannot present it to the public, without testifying how deeply sensible I am of this most gracious mark of your Royal Highness’s approbation.

I am perfectly aware that no merit of the performance can give it pretensions to so exalted a patronage; yet to whom can this publication with so much propriety be addressed, as to that illustrious and magnanimous Prince, who, by his wisdom and councils, during the most arduous contest in which any nation was ever engaged, preserved us in the quiet enjoyment of that land, and, under whose auspicious guidance and government, has been raised to the highest pinnacle of glory that country, the topography and picturesque beauties of which it is the principal design of the following pages to illustrate.

That your Royal Highness may long live to be the ornament of society, the delight and boast of a grateful and admiring nation, is the ardent wish of,

Sir,
Your Royal Highness’s
most grateful,
most dutiful,
and most devoted servant,
EDWARD MOGG.

ADVERTISEMENT.

In presenting to the Public the first part of this comprehensive work, embracing the southern division of the Kingdom, the Proprietor indulges a hope, that while conveying information, he will be found in some degree to have contributed to the amusement of the traveller.

The gratification derived from an excursion of pleasure does not always terminate with its performance, but is often produced by reflections which naturally arise on a subsequent review of past occurrences or remarkable objects; and which the peculiar construction of this work is eminently calculated to assist.

In contemplating a new Road, we feel enlivened by anticipation; in the recollection of an old one, we are led to reflections that equally interest; and a recurrence to these pages will immediately present to the reader’s imagination the identical spot, or well known inn, which from a variety of incidents that occur in the prosecution of a journey, whether the remembrance be attended with pleasure or accompanied by a feeling of regret, never fail to leave an indelible impression on the mind.

It has been justly remarked by an eminent Geographer [1], that the Rivers of England have never yet been delineated; the same observation may be applied with equal truth, though still greater regret, with respect to its Roads, which (on a large scale) yet remain to be illustrated; how far the present work is likely to succeed in supplying the latter deficiency, it will remain for the public to decide. It is an object the Proprietor has long had in contemplation, and has thence been brought to greater perfection from an attentive observation of circumstances peculiarly connected with the subject, both in regard to the alteration of old, and the formation of new Roads, which, by avoiding hills and shortening distance, will be found to afford such facilities to travelling as are alone to be experienced on this island: accurately to delineate improvements so extensive, and which will in vain be sought in any other publication, are the pages of this work devoted.

[1] Pinkerton.

To comment on the superiority of the method of delineation here adopted were superfluous at the present time, when the Proprietor’s pretensions may be decided by comparison with the performances of predecessors in a similar course, and when indeed he feels confident of having thus far accomplished an undertaking, which, whether as referring to originality or execution, is considerably more entitled to attention than any known production of its kind; combining means so ample and illustrative, the Traveller is in possession of information nearly equal to a bird’s-eye view of the country. The Seats of the Nobility and Gentry are faithfully described, the names of their several Proprietors have been carefully attended to, and the arrangement of the whole so constructed as to render the work at once clear and comprehensive. Simplicity, joined to a strict accuracy, has been his chief aim, and he is unconscious of having omitted any thing which could have contributed to render the whole complete.

TABLE OF ROUTES.

To simplify as much as possible, and to facilitate the understanding of this work, the following Table of Routes is given; describing the page at which the commencement of each Road will be found, and which, where the same is not continued in a regular succession, will conduct, by reference to the pages, the eye of the reader with the most perfect ease to every place of consequence contained in the work.

LONDON to DOVER,—pages 1 to 10.

LONDON to MARGATE,—pages 1 to 8, to Canterbury; thence to Margate, pages 11 and 12.

LONDON to RAMSGATE,—pages 1 to 8, to Canterbury; thence to Monkton, where the Road turns off, pages 11 and 12; thence to Ramsgate, page 13.

LONDON to HASTINGS,—pages 15 to 22.

LONDON to CANTERBURY,—pages 1 to 8.

LONDON to TUNBRIDGE WELLS,—pages 15 to 18, to Tunbridge; thence to Tunbridge Wells, page 14.

LONDON to PORTSMOUTH,—pages 23 to 32.

LONDON to CHICHESTER, by Midhurst,—pages 23 to 27, to Milford; thence to Chichester, pages 33 to 36.

LONDON to CHICHESTER, by Petworth,—pages 23 to 27, to Milford; thence to Chichester, pages 37 to 40.

LONDON to BOGNOR, by Chichester, (to Chichester as above)—thence to Bognor, page 41.

LONDON to BOGNOR, by Eartham,—to Milford, pages 23 to 27; thence to Benges Wood, where the Road divides, pages 37 to 40; thence to Bognor, by Eartham, page 42.

LONDON to ARUNDEL,—pages 23 to 27, to Milford; thence to Petworth, pages 37 to 38; thence to Arundel, pages 43 and 44.

LONDON to BRIGHTON, through Sutton and Ryegate,—pages 45 to 51.

LONDON to BRIGHTON, through Croydon,—pages 52 to 54, to Ryegate; thence to Brighton, pages 47 to 51.

LONDON to BRIGHTON, by Lewes,—to Purley House, pages 52 and 53; thence to Brighton, pages 55 to 60.

LONDON to WORTHING,—to Tooting, page 45; thence to Worthing, pages 61 to 67.

LONDON to SOUTHAMPTON, by Basingstoke,—pages 69 to 79.

LONDON to SOUTHAMPTON, through Farnham,—to the Golden Farmer, pages 69 to 72; thence to Winchester, pages 80 to 84; thence to Southampton, pages 78 and 79.

LONDON to POOLE, through Romsey,—pages 69 to 77, to Winchester; thence to Poole, pages 85 to 90.

LONDON to POOLE, by Southampton, (to Southampton as above)—thence to the 82nd Milestone, page 91; thence to Poole, page 87 to 90.

LONDON to LYMINGTON, (to Southampton as above)—thence to Totton, page 91; thence to Lymington, pages 92 and 93.

LONDON to CHRISTCHURCH,—to Winchester, pages 69 to 77; thence to Ringwood, pages 85 to 88; thence to Christchurch, page 94.

LONDON to GOSPORT,—pages 69 to 72, to the Golden Farmer; thence to Alton, pages 80 to 82; thence to Gosport, pages 95 to 98.

LONDON to EXETER, through Andover, Salisbury, Blandford, and Dorchester,—to Basingstoke, pages 69 to 75; thence to Exeter, pages 99 to 116.

LONDON to PLYMOUTH and FALMOUTH, (to Exeter as above)—thence to Plymouth, pages 117 to 122; thence to Falmouth, pages 123 to 130.

LONDON to EXETER, through Stockbridge, Salisbury, and Shaftesbury,—to Basingstoke, pages 69 to 75; thence to Axminster, pages 131 to 144; thence to Exeter, pages 113 to 116.

LONDON to FALMOUTH, through Launceston, (to Exeter as above)—thence to Truro, pages 147 to 158; thence to Falmouth, pages 129 and 130.

LONDON to EXETER, through Andover, commonly called the New Road,—to Basingstoke, pages 69 to 75; thence to Andover, pages 99 to 101; thence to Honiton, pages 159 to 170; thence to Exeter, pages 114 to 116.

LONDON to WEYMOUTH,—to Basingstoke, pages 69 to 75; thence to Dorchester, pages 99 to 109; thence to Weymouth, page 171.

LONDON to BRUTON,—to Basingstoke, pages 69 to 75; thence to Andover, pages 99 to 101; thence to the 98th Milestone on the Exeter Road, pages 159 to 163; thence to Bruton, pages 172 and 173.

LONDON to BATH and EXETER, by Calne and Chippenham,—to Hounslow, pages 69 and 70; thence to Bath and Exeter, pages 174 to 197.

LONDON to BATH and BRISTOL, by Devizes,—to Hounslow, pages 69 and 70; thence to Beckhampton Inn, pages 174 to 184; thence to Bath and Bristol, pages 198 to 203.

BATH to BRIGHTON, through Warminster, Salisbury, and Romsey,—pages 204 to 219.

BATH to BRIGHTON, through Salisbury and Southampton,—pages 204 to 211, to Romsey; thence through Southampton to Cosham, pages 220 to 223; thence to Brighton, pages 214 to 219.