Livro Surrey

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ITINERARY THE SECOND 'round About The Devius Punch Bowl Picturesqueness and popularity?Tennyson and the Cockneys?

Pine and heather?Hind Head's miserable hill?Approaches to Hind Head?Haslemere and its history?Hind Head: ascent from Haslemere?A hill-top suburbia?Tyn- dall's house?The Portsmouth road?The Punch Bowl and its fascinations?A memorial stone and its story?On Gibbet Hill?A noble prospect every way?Descent to Thursley?

The village?The unknown sailor's epitaph?The Devil's Jumps?Up the hill again to the Beacon?Down by the Frensham road?Churt?Frehsham common, ponds, and village?Tilford?Elstead ? Oxenford Grange and Peper Harrow?Buried treasure?Shackleford?Hurtmore?Charterhouse?Farncombe?Godalming?The rabbit woman ?Hascombe?Hydon's top?Witley?In the Weald?An old canal.

T N the Haslemere district we are in that part of Surrey which has come to be looked upon as the most beautiful. Its popularity has grown greatly within the past decade or so, before which time Box Hill and Leith Hill stood out as the most representative spots in the county.

They have lost little if any of their attractiveness, and the delights within easy reach of Londoners have only been increased by the discovery of the south-western corner of this most fascinating county.

It is now a number of years since the neighbourhood around Haslemere first began to attract the attention of people able to build themselves houses at a distance from town.

It was to Stoatley Farm on the southern end of Hind Head that Tennyson movedin 1867. Thence he wrote in June of that year to the Duke of Argyll, My wife has always had a fancy for the sandy soil and heather-scented air of this part of England, and we are intending to buy a few acres and build a little home here, whither we may escape when the Cockneys are ...