The tramp of the two from Spitalfields to Chertsey on the burglary expedition can easily be followed from Dickens's clearly indicated itinerary. The point on the journey where they obtained their lift in a cart bound for Hounslow was near Knightsbridge. Having bargained with the driver to put them down at Isleworth, they at length alighted a little way beyond "a public-house called the Coach and Horses, which stood at the corner of a road just beyond Isleworth leading to Hampton." They did not enter this public-house, but continued their journey. Mr. John Sayce Parr, in an article in _The Dickensian_, Vol. I, page 261, speaks of the topographical accuracy of Dickens in this instance: "The literary pilgrim," he says, "sets out to follow the route he indicates, doubtful if he will find the places mentioned. There is, however, not the slightest excuse for making mistakes, for Dickens apparently visited the scenes and described them with the accuracy of a guide-book. Thus, one finds the Coach and Horses, sure enough, at the point where Brentford ends and Isleworth begins, by the entrance to Sion Park, and near the spot where the road rambles off to the left." [Illustration: THE "EIGHT BELLS" Hatfield _Drawn by F. G. Kitton_] The Coach and Horses, the same writer says, is not a picturesque inn. It is a huge four-square lump of a place, and wears, indeed, rather a dour and forbidding aspect. It is unquestionably the house of which Dickens speaks, and was built certainly not later than the dawn of the nineteenth century. It still exists to-day, although the surroundings have altered somewhat by the advent of the electric tramways and other "improvements." The George Inn, mentioned in Chapter XXXIII, where Oliver took the letter for Mr. Losberne to be sent by "an express on horseback to Chertsey," cannot be identified, as the market-town in whose market-place it stood is not mentioned or hinted at. Mr. Percy FitzGerald claims that the description applies to Chertsey, but, as the letter had to be taken to Chertsey, something seems wrong in his deduction.