Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive) SURREY BLACK'S POPULAR SERIES of COLOUR BOOKS _VOLUMES IN THIS SERIES_ =CAMBRIDGE= By W. MATTHISON and M. A. R. TUKER. =OXFORD= By JOHN FULLEYLOVE and EDWARD THOMAS. =SCOTLAND= By SUTTON PALMER and A. R. HOPE MONCRIEFF. =SURREY= By SUTTON PALMER and A. R. HOPE MONCRIEFF. =WARWICKSHIRE= By FRED WHITEHEAD and CLIVE HOLLAND. =WILD LAKELAND= By A. HEATON COOPER and MACKENZIE MACBRIDE. _Other Volumes to follow._ AGENTS AMERICA THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 64 & 66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK AUSTRALASIA THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 205 FLINDERS LANE, MELBOURNE CANADA THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA, LTD. ST. MARTIN'S HOUSE, 70 BOND STREET, TORONTO INDIA MACMILLAN & COMPANY, LTD. MACMILLAN BUILDING, BOMBAY 300 BOW BAZAAR STREET, CALCUTTA INDIAN BANK BUILDINGS, MADRAS [Illustration: BLUEBELLS, RIPLEY.] SURREY PAINTED BY SUTTON · PALMER DESCRIBED BY A·R·HOPE·MONCRIEFF [Illustration] A & C BLACK LTD 4, 5, 6 SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W. 1. _First Edition, with 75 Illustrations, published in 1906_ _Reprinted in 1909, 1912, and 1915_ _Second Edition, revised, with 32 Illustrations, published in 1922_ PREFACE The illustrations in this book speak for themselves. The writer feels it no easy undertaking to strike bass chords in prose that may worthily accompany these high notes of Surrey's fame; but he has done his best towards pointing out its special charm of varied formation and surface, here displayed upon the course of excursions made in several directions, so as to bring in all the chief features. To author as well as artist, both at least long sojourners in this choice county that gives homes to many an adopted son, the work has been a labour of love. The moral enforced at once by pen and pencil is that few great cities are so lucky as London in having at its back-doors a playground, pleasure-ground, and garden-ground of such manifold interest and beauty. CONTENTS CHAPTER I PAGE A "HOME" COUNTY 1 CHAPTER II THE RIVERSIDE 22