Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 45712-h.htm or 45712-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/45712/45712-h/45712-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/45712/45712-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See https://archive.org/details/leisurelytourine00hiss A LEISURELY TOUR IN ENGLAND * * * * * * BY THE SAME AUTHOR THE CHARM OF THE ROAD. _England and Wales._ AN ENGLISH HOLIDAY. UNTRAVELLED ENGLAND. OVER FEN AND WOLD. _London to Lincolnshire and Back._ ON SOUTHERN ENGLISH ROADS. THROUGH TEN ENGLISH COUNTIES. ACROSS ENGLAND IN A DOG-CART. _London to St. Davids and Back._ A TOUR IN A PHAETON. _Through the Eastern Counties._ A HOLIDAY ON THE ROAD. _Kent, Sussex, and Surrey._ ON THE BOX SEAT. _London to Land's End and Back._ A DRIVE THROUGH ENGLAND. _London to Scotland and Back._ AN OLD-FASHIONED JOURNEY. With T. HUSON, R.I., R.P.E. ROUND ABOUT SNOWDON. * * * * * * A LEISURELY TOUR IN ENGLAND * * * * * * [Illustration] MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO DALLAS · SAN FRANCISCO THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO * * * * * * [Illustration: _See page 312._ A MOATED MANOR-HOUSE. "The place is silent and aware; It has had its scenes, its joys and crimes, But that is its own affair."] A LEISURELY TOUR IN ENGLAND by JAMES JOHN HISSEY Author of 'The Charm of the Road,' 'On the Box Seat,' 'An English Holiday,' 'Over Fen and Wold,' etc. With Thirty Full-Page Illustrations (and Four Smaller Ones) from Drawings and Photographs by the Author Also a Map Macmillan and Co., Limited St. Martin's Street, London 1913 Copyright TO MY DAUGHTER MRS. HERBERT MALPAS PREFACE Stevenson once took a journey with a donkey, which animal gave him much trouble. I took my journey in a reliable little motor-car that happily gave me none. Though I went by car I went leisurely, stopping often by the way, for full well I realise the reward of loitering, and, as all wise wanderers can testify, there is such a thing as profitably loitering, and a joy in it. Had they been of his day Carlyle would probably have declared that motor-cars "are mostly employed for the transport of fools best left at home," at least he said so of railways. With a car, however, you can control the pace, and can stop at your pleasure; it is an excellent servant, though in truth a bad master.