CONTENTS

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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]
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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]