LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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George the Fourth[Frontispiece]
Sketch-map showing Principal Routes to Brighton[4]
Stage Waggon, 1808[13]
The “Talbot” Inn Yard, Borough, about 1815[17]
Me and My Wife and Daughter[19]
The “Duke of Beaufort” Coach starting from the “Bull and Mouth”
Office, Piccadilly Circus, 1826		[31]
The “Age,” 1829, starting from Castle Square, Brighton[35]
Sir Charles Dance’s Steam-carriage leaving London for Brighton, 1833[39]
The Brighton Day Mails crossing Hookwood Common, 1838[43]
The “Age,” 1852, crossing Ham Common[47]
The “Old Times,” 1888[51]
The “Comet,” 1890[55]
John Mayall, Junior, 1869[70]
The Stock Exchange Walk: E. F. Broad at Horley[83]
Miss M. Foster, paced by Motor Cycle, passing Coulsdon[86]
Kennington Gate: Derby Day, 1839[95]
Streatham Common[101]
Streatham[107]
The Dining Hall, Whitgift Hospital[111]
The Chapel, Hospital of the Holy Trinity[113]
Croydon Town Hall[120]
Chipstead Church[135]
Merstham[139]
Gatton Hall and “Town Hall”[144]
The Switchback Road, Earlswood Common[148]
Thunderfield Castle[150]
The “Chequers,” Horley[151]
The “Six Bells,” Horley[153]
The “Cock,” Sutton, 1789[157]
Kingswood Warren[162]
The Suspension Bridge, Reigate Hill[163]
The Tunnel, Reigate[167]
Tablet, Batswing Cottages[172]
The Floods at Horley[174]
Charlwood[176]
A Corner in Newdigate Church[177]
On the Road to Newdigate[179]
Ifield Mill Pond[180]
Crawley: Looking South[183]
Crawley, 1789[185]
An Old Cottage at Crawley[188]
The “George,” Crawley[189]
Sculptured Emblem of the Holy Trinity, Crawley Church[191]
Pease Pottage[197]
The “Red Lion,” Hand Cross[201]
Cuckfield, 1789[203]
The Road out of Cuckfield[207]
Cuckfield Place[210]
The Clock-Tower and Haunted Avenue, Cuckfield Place[211]
Harrison Ainsworth[213]
Old Sussex Fireback, Ridden’s Farm[223]
Jacob’s Post[224]
Clayton Tunnel[233]
Clayton Church and the South Downs[235]
The Ruins of Slaugham Place[239]
The Entrance: Ruins of Slaugham Place[241]
Bolney[243]
From a Brass at Slaugham[244]
Hickstead Place[245]
Newtimber Place[247]
Pyecombe: Junction of the Roads[249]
Patcham[251]
Old Dovecot, Patcham[254]
Preston Viaduct: Entrance to Brighton[256]
The Pavilion[259]
The Cliffs, Brighthelmstone, 1789[263]
Dr. Richard Russell[265]
St. Nicholas, the old Parish Church of Brighthelmstone[269]
The Aquarium, before destruction of the Chain Pier[271]

I

The road to Brighton—the main route, pre-eminently the road—is measured from the south side of Westminster Bridge to the Aquarium. It goes by Croydon, Redhill, Horley, Crawley, and Cuckfield, and is (or is supposed to be) 51½ miles in length. Of this prime route—the classic way—there are several longer or shorter variations, of which the way through Clapham, Mitcham, Sutton, and Reigate, to Povey Cross is the chief. The modern “record” route is the first of these two, so far as Hand Cross, where it branches off and, instead of going through Cuckfield, proceeds to Brighton by way of Hickstead and Bolney, avoiding Clayton Hill and rejoining the initial route at Pyecombe.

VARIOUS ROUTES

The oldest road to Brighton is now but little used. It is not to be indicated in few words, but may be taken as the line of road from London Bridge, along the Kennington Road, to Brixton, Croydon, Godstone Green, Tilburstow Hill, Blindley Heath, East Grinstead, Maresfield, Uckfield, and Lewes; some fifty-nine miles. This is without doubt the most picturesque route. A circuitous way, travelled by some coaches was by Ewell, Leatherhead, Dorking, Horsham, and Mockbridge (doubtless, bearing in mind the ancient mires of Sussex, originally “Muckbridge”), and was 57½ miles in length. An extension of this route lay from Horsham through Steyning, bringing up the total mileage to sixty-one miles three furlongs.