Transcriber’s Note: Illustrations have been moved so as not to fall in the middle of paragraphs (leaving them as close to the original position in the book as possible). A few minor printing errors were corrected.

Volume I is available as Project Gutenberg ebook #57365.

THAMES VALLEY VILLAGES

WORKS BY CHARLES G. HARPER

The Portsmouth Road, and its Tributaries: To-day and in Days of Old.

The Dover Road: Annals of an Ancient Turnpike.

The Bath Road: History, Fashion, and Frivolity on an Old Highway.

The Exeter Road: The Story of the West of England Highway.

The Great North Road: The Old Mail Road to Scotland. Two Vols.

The Norwich Road: An East Anglian Highway.

The Holyhead Road: The Mail-Coach Road to Dublin. Two Vols.

The Cambridge, Ely, and King’s Lynn Road: The Great Fenland Highway.

The Newmarket, Bury, Thetford, and Cromer Road: Sport and History on an East Anglian Turnpike.

The Oxford, Gloucester, and Milford Haven Road: The Ready Way to South Wales. Two Vols.

The Brighton Road: Speed, Sport, and History on the Classic Highway.

The Hastings Road and the “Happy Springs of Tunbridge.”

Cycle Rides Round London.

A Practical Handbook of Drawing for Modern Methods of Reproduction.

Stage Coach and Mail in Days of Yore. Two Vols.

The Ingoldsby Country: Literary Landmarks of “The Ingoldsby Legends.”

The Hardy Country: Literary Landmarks of the Wessex Novels.

The Dorset Coast.

The South Devon Coast.

The Old Inns of Old England. Two Vols.

Love in the Harbour: a Longshore Comedy.

Rural Nooks Round London (Middlesex and Surrey).

Haunted Houses: Tales of the Supernatural.

The Manchester and Glasgow Road. This way to Gretna Green. Two Vols.

The North Devon Coast.

Half Hours with the Highwaymen. Two Vols.

The Autocar Road Book. Four Vols.

The Tower Of London: Fortress, Palace, and Prison.

The Somerset Coast.

The Smugglers: Picturesque Chapters in the Story of an Ancient Craft.

The Cornish Coast. North.

The Cornish Coast. South.

The Kentish Coast. [In the Press.

The Sussex Coast. [In the Press.

BISHAM CHURCH.

THAMES VALLEY
VILLAGES

BY
CHARLES G. HARPER

VOL. II

ILLUSTRATED FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY W. S. CAMPBELL
AND FROM DRAWINGS BY THE AUTHOR

TAMESIS

London: CHAPMAN & HALL, Ltd.
1910

PRINTED AND BOUND BY
HAZELL, WATSON AND VINEY, LD.,
LONDON AND AYLESBURY.

CONTENTS

PAGE
CHAPTER I
Sonning—Hurst, “In the County of Wilts”—Shottesbrooke—Wargrave[1]
CHAPTER II
Henley—The Bridge and its Keystone-Masks—Remenham—Hambleden—Medmenham Abbey and the “Hell Fire Club”—Hurley—Bisham[25]
CHAPTER III
Great Marlow—Cookham—Cliveden and its Owners—Maidenhead[51]
CHAPTER IV
Bray and its Famous Vicar—Jesus Hospital[69]
CHAPTER V
Ockwells Manor-House—Dorney Court—Boveney—Burnham Abbey[82]
CHAPTER VI
Clewer—Windsor—Eton and its Collegians—Datchet—Langley and the Kederminsters[109]
CHAPTER VII
Datchet—Runnymede—Wraysbury—Horton and its Milton Associations—Staines Moor—Stanwell—Laleham and Matthew Arnold—Littleton—Chertsey—Weybridge—Shepperton[131]
CHAPTER VIII
Coway Stakes—Walton-on-Thames—The River and the Water Companies—Sunbury—Teddington—Twickenham[157]
CHAPTER IX
Petersham[185]
CHAPTER X
Isleworth—Brentford and Cæsar’s Crossing of the Thames[211]
CHAPTER XI
Strand-on-the-Green—Kew—Chiswick—Mortlake—Barnes[236]
CHAPTER XII
Putney—Fulham Bridge—Fulham[258]
INDEX[293]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

SEPARATE PLATES

Bisham Church[Frontispiece]
PAGE
Sonning Bridge[5]
Shottesbrooke Church[13]
Wargrave Church[19]
Under the Willows: A Backwater near Wargrave[23]
Arch Carrying the Road, Park Place[27]
Remenham Church[27]
Henley-on-Thames[31]
Regatta Island[35]
Medmenham Abbey[39]
The Bell Inn, Hurley[43]
Bisham Abbey[47]
“Top o’ the Town,” Great Marlow[47]
A Thames Regatta[53]
Cookham Lock[57]
Cookham Church[61]
Bray Church[61]
Cookham Weir[65]
Lychgate, Bray[71]
Jesus Hospital, Bray[79]
The Hall, Ockwells[83]
Dorney Church: the Minstrel-Gallery[87]
The Palmer Sampler, Worked about 1620[91]
Dorney Court[95]
Dorney Court: the Great Hall, Showing the Model Pine-Apple[99]
Presentation to Charles the Second of the First Pine-Apple Grown in England[103]
Burnham Abbey[107]
An English Farmyard: Burnham Abbey Farm[111]
Boveney[113]
The Kederminster Pew: Interior[117]
The Kederminster Pew: Exterior[121]
The Kederminster Library[125]
The Almshouses, Langley[129]
Backwater near Wraysbury[133]
Horton Church[139]
Laleham Church[147]
Matthew Arnold’s Grave, Laleham[147]
Littleton Church[151]
Interior, Littleton Church[155]
Shepperton[159]
Grave of Thomas Love Peacock’s Daughter, Shepperton[163]
Halliford[171]
Watersplash near Halliford[171]
Sunbury[175]
A Busy Day, Molesey Lock[179]
Teddington Weir[183]
Twickenham Church[187]
Petersham Post-Office[187]
Petersham Post-Office[191]
Petersham: The “Fox and Duck,” Old Lock-up and Village Pound[195]
Petersham, from the Middlesex Shore[199]
The Old Lodges of Petersham Park[203]
River Lane, Petersham[207]
Isleworth[213]
The Dock at Isleworth[217]
The “London Apprentice,” Isleworth[217]
“Old England”[223]
“Old England”: Mouth of the Brent, and Brentford Ferry[227]
Strand-on-the-Green[239]
Strand-on-the-Green: View Up-River[243]
Chiswick Church[249]
Monument to Viscount Mordaunt, Fulham Church[271]
The Tower, Fulham Church[277]
The Fitzjames Courtyard, Fulham Palace[281]
The Great Hall, Fulham Palace[287]

ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT.

Hour-Glass and Wrought-Iron Stand, Hurst[8]
St. Lawrence Waltham[11]
East Window, Shottesbrooke[16]
Medmenham[37]
From the Monument to Sir Myles Hobart, Great Marlow[52]
Brass to an Eton Scholar, Wraysbury[136]
Bradshaw’s House, Walton-on-Thames[165]
Brass to John Selwyn[167]
Walton-on-Thames Church[169]
Ferry Lane, Brentford[233]
Tomb of Edward Rose, Barnes[255]
The Old Toll-House, Barnes Common[261]