E-text prepared by Colin Bell, Jane Hyland, Internet Archive (Canadian Libraries), and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 28057-h.htm or 28057-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/8/0/5/28057/28057-h/28057-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/8/0/5/28057/28057-h.zip) Transcriber's note: A letter with a line or macron over it is preceded by an equal sign and enclosed within square brackets (example: [=o]). Superscripts are denoted by a carat character (example: "ix^th day"). HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS IN SURREY * * * * * MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED LONDON. BOMBAY. CALCUTTA. MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK. BOSTON. CHICAGO. ATLANTA. SAN FRANCISCO THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO * * * * * [Illustration: _High Street, Guildford._] HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS IN SURREY by ERIC PARKER With Illustrations by Hugh Thomson MacMillan and Co., Limited St. Martin's Street, London 1909 Richard Clay and Sons, Limited, Bread Street Hill, E.C., and Bungay, Suffolk. First Edition, 1908 Reprinted, 1909 PREFACE A preface ought not to contain an apology. But mine must contain at least an explanation, if only of omissions. The Highways and Byways of Surrey belong not to one county or to one period of time, but to two different ages, and, to-day, to two counties. London has made the difference. What was Surrey country a hundred years ago has been gathered into the network of London streets, and belongs, in the mind and on the map, to London. Almost for ten miles south of the London Thames the old Surrey countryside has disappeared, and the disappearance has left the writer of a book of Surrey Highways a difficult choice. It would have been easy to fill a large part of the book with the Surrey of the past, the Surrey of Southwark, and the great church of St. Mary Overie, and of Lambeth Palace and the Archbishops, of Vauxhall, and the Paris Gardens, and the Bankside where Shakespeare brought out his plays. But it is not easy to write anything new of any part of Surrey, and of that part I could have written nothing new at all. So that it seemed best to leave the Surrey that has disappeared to writers who have dealt with its history far more adequately than I could, and to choose for the Highways and Byways of this book only those which still run through open country and through country villages and towns. That is the Surrey of to-day.