GODSTONE 389

OLD TIMBERED HOUSE NEAR BLETCHINGLEY 392

BLETCHINGLEY 394

NUTFIELD CHURCH 399

LINGFIELD 401

THE VILLAGE CAGE, LINGFIELD 402

CROWHURST CHURCH AND THE OLD YEW 409

THE FARMHOUSE OPPOSITE CROWHURST CHURCH 410

CROWHURST PLACE 411

THE BRIDGE OVER THE MOAT, CROWHURST PLACE 412

TANDRIDGE CHURCH 415

A STREET IN OXTED 417

OXTED CHURCH 418

THE GOLF HOUSE AND WINDMILL, WIMBLEDON COMMON 429

HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS

IN

SURREY

CHAPTER I

THE PILGRIMS' WAY

The Pageant of the Road.--Canterbury Pilgrims.--Henry II.
barefoot.--Choosing the Road.--Wind on the Hill.--Wine in the
Valley.--_Pilgrim's Progress._--Shalford Fair.--A doubtful
Mile.--Trespassers will be Prosecuted.--With Chaucer from the
Tabard.

East and west through the county of Surrey runs the chalk ridge of the
North Downs, the great highway of Southern England from the Straits of
Dover to Salisbury Plain. Of all English roads, it has carried the
longest pageant. It saw the beginnings of English history; for four
centuries it was one of the best known highways in Christendom: the
vision from its windy heights is one of the widest and most gracious of
all visions of woods and fields and hills. By the trackway they made
upon the ridge came the worshippers to Stonehenge; Phoenician traders
brought bronze to barter for British tin, and the tin was carried in
ingots from Devon and Cornwall along the highway to the port of Thanet;
Greeks and Gauls came for lead and tin and furs, and the merchants rode
by the great Way to bring them. When Caesar swept through Surrey on his
second landing, his legions marched over the Way before he turned north
to the Thames. When the Conqueror drove fire and sword through Southern
England, he went down to Winchester by the cha