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Title: Highways & Byways in Sussex

Author: E.V. Lucas

Illustrator: Frederick Griggs

Release Date: February 27, 2007 [EBook #20696]

Language: English

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_Highways and Byways in Sussex_

BY E. V. LUCAS

WITH . ILLUSTRATIONS . BY

FREDERICK L. GRIGGS

MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON

1921

_COPYRIGHT._

_First Edition printed February 1904._
_Reprinted, April 1904, 1907, 1912, 1919, 1921._

[Illustration: _The Barbican, Lewes Castle._ _Frontispiece._]

PREFACE

Readers who are acquainted with the earlier volumes of this series will
not need to be told that they are less guide-books than appreciations of
the districts with which they are concerned. In the pages that follow my
aim has been to gather a Sussex bouquet rather than to present the facts
which the more practical traveller requires.

The order of progress through the country has been determined largely by
the lines of railway. I have thought it best to enter Sussex in the west
at Midhurst, making that the first centre, and to zig-zag thence across
to the east by way of Chichester, Arundel, Petworth, Horsham, Brighton
(I name only the chief centres), Cuckfield, East Grinstead, Lewes,
Eastbourne, Hailsham, Hastings, Rye, and Tunbridge Wells; leaving the
county finally at Withyham, on the borders of Ashdown Forest. For the
traveller in a carriage or on a bicycle this route is not the best; but
for those who would explore it slowly on foot (and much of the more
characteristic scenery of Sussex can be studied only in this way), with
occasional assistance from the train, it is, I think, as good a scheme
as any.

I do not suggest that it is necessary for the reader who travel