The late eminent antiquary Mr. Warton, observes in his history of Kiddington, page 65, “About 5 years ago, (1775) on the edge of a lane in the parish of Slinfold in Sussex, four miles from Horsham, I saw several deep
fissures in the Stane street, a Roman road, going from Arundel, if not from the sea side through Dorking to London. The dorsum not intended for heavy carriages consists of sea gravel and sea pebbles abounding on the Sussex coast, above 3 feet deep, and 7 yards long: these minute materials must have been amassed with prodigious labour.
Springfield, a handsome brick mansion to the north of the town, is the property of Francis Scawen Blunt esq., who now rents it to --- Thornton Esq.
INNS AT HORSHAM
| The King’s Head Hotel | East Street. |
| Anchor Hotel | Town Hall square. |
| The Crown | Carfax. |
| The Lamb | Ditto. |
| The Swan | West Street. |
| The Castle | Ditto. |
| The Black Horse | Ditto. |
| The Punch bowl | Ditto. |
| The Green Dragon | Bishoprick. |
| The Queen’s Head | East Street. |
| The Hurst Arms | North Street. |
| The Dog and Bacon | London Road. |
| The White Hart | North Parade. |
COACHES.
Coaches pass daily to and from London, Brighton, Worthing, Windsor, Oxford, and Reading.—The Horsham and London Star Coach leaves the Swan inn West Street, at 7 o’clock every morning, and reaches the old Bell inn Holborn about a quarter to 12: from thence it starts the same afternoon, at a quarter past 3, and arrives at Horsham by 8.
GAS.
The streets are now well lighted with gas, considering that this is the first year of their illumination. The gameter
is erected at the back of Albion Terrace, another specimen of the improving state of the town. The good people of Horsham have lately been much annoyed by the dirty condition of their streets, occasioned by the insertion of the gas pipes, even to such an extent as almost to merit the ancient epithet of the county, as we find in a very old verse, or rather ryhme of the peculiarities of each shire.