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.
INDEX
[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, 1[08], [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]