HADLEY CHURCH, MONKEN HADLEY 22 DICKENS' HOME, GAD'S HILL, NEAR ROCHESTER 30 CATHEDRAL, CANTERBURY 33 RUINS OF URICONIUM, NEAR SHREWSBURY 64 STOKESAY MANOR HOUSE, NEAR LUDLOW 66 THE FEATHERS HOTEL, LUDLOW 68 LUDLOW CASTLE, THE KEEP AND ENTRANCE 72 A GLADE IN NEW FOREST 88 ST. JOSEPH'S CHAPEL, GLASTONBURY ABBEY 108 DISTANT VIEW OF ROSS, SOUTH WELSH BORDER 114 RUINS OF RAGLAN CASTLE, SOUTH WALES 120 KILCHURN CASTLE, LOCH AWE 152 TOWERS OF ELGIN CATHEDRAL, NORTH SCOTLAND 162 DUNNOTTAR CASTLE, STONEHAVEN, NEAR ABERDEEN 164 TOWN HOUSE, DUNBAR, SCOTLAND 180 BAMBOROUGH CASTLE, NORTHUMBERLAND 184 OLD COTTAGE AT COCKINGTON 200 SOMERSBY RECTORY, BIRTHPLACE OF TENNYSON 210 SOMERSBY CHURCH 212 ST. BOTOLPH'S CHURCH FROM THE RIVER, BOSTON 216 A TYPICAL BYWAY 224 JOHN WYCLIF'S CHURCH, LUTTERWORTH 232 BYRON'S ELM IN CHURCHYARD, HARROW 246 MILTON'S ROOM IN COTTAGE AT CHALFONT ST. GILES 250 DISTANT VIEW OF MAGDALEN TOWER, OXFORD 256 RINGWOOD CHURCH 260 WINDMILL NEAR ARUNDEL, SUSSEX 274 ARUNDEL CASTLE 276 PEVENSEY CASTLE, WHERE THE NORMANS LANDED 280 WINCHELSEA CHURCH AND ELM TREE 282 ENTRANCE FRONT BODIAM CASTLE, SUSSEX 286 PENSHURST PLACE, HOME OF THE SIDNEYS 292 MAPS MAP OF ENGLAND AND WALES 310 MAP OF SCOTLAND 318 [Illustration: OLD COTTAGE AT NORTON, NEAR EVESHAM. From Water Color by G.F. Nicholls.] British Highways and Byways From a Motor Car I A FEW GENERALITIES Stratford-on-Avon stands first on the itinerary of nearly every American who proposes to visit the historic shrines of Old England. Its associations with Britain's immortal bard and with our own gentle Geoffrey Crayon are not unfamiliar to the veriest layman, and no fewer than thirty thousand pilgrims, largely from America, visit the delightful old town each year. And who ever came away disappointed? Who, if impervious to the charm of the place, ever dared to own it?