Produced by Chris Curnow, Harry Lamé and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Transcriber’s Notes Text printed in small capitals in the original work has been transcribed =between equal signs=, text printed in italics has been transcribed _between underscores_. Superscript text is represented as ^{text}. More Transcriber’s Notes may be found at the end of this text. [Illustration] SURVEY OF THE HIGH ROADS OF England and Wales. PART THE FIRST. COMPRISING THE COUNTIES OF KENT, SURREY, SUSSEX, HANTS, WILTS, DORSET, SOMERSET, DEVON, AND CORNWALL; WITH PART OF BUCKINGHAM AND MIDDLESEX. _PLANNED ON A SCALE OF ONE INCH TO A MILE._ EXHIBITING AT ONE VIEW THE SEATS OF THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY, WHETHER SITUATED ON, OR CONTIGUOUS TO, THE ROAD. The various Branches of Roads and Towns to which they lead. TOGETHER WITH THE ACTUAL DISTANCE OF THE SAME FROM THE MAIN ROAD, RIVERS, NAVIGABLE CANALS, RAILWAYS, TURNPIKE GATES, &c. &c. ACCOMPANIED BY INDEXES, _TOPOGRAPHIC AND DESCRIPTIVE_. THE WHOLE ENRICHED WITH A VARIETY OF VALUABLE AND ORIGINAL INFORMATION. ARRANGED BY, AND UNDER THE DIRECTION OF, EDWARD MOGG. _LONDON:_ PUBLISHED BY EDWARD MOGG, No. 51, CHARING CROSS. 1817. TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE REGENT. =Sir=, Your Royal Highness having graciously condescended to extend your august patronage and protection to this work, I cannot present it to the public, without testifying how deeply sensible I am of this most gracious mark of your Royal Highness’s approbation. I am perfectly aware that no merit of the performance can give it pretensions to so exalted a patronage; yet to whom can this publication with so much propriety be addressed, as to that illustrious and magnanimous Prince, who, by his wisdom and councils, during the most arduous contest in which any nation was ever engaged, preserved us in the quiet enjoyment of that land, and, under whose auspicious guidance and government, has been raised to the highest pinnacle of glory that country, the topography and picturesque beauties of which it is the principal design of the following pages to illustrate. That your Royal Highness may long live to be the ornament of society, the delight and boast of a grateful and admiring nation, is the ardent wish of, Sir, Your Royal Highness’s most grateful, most dutiful, and most devoted servant, EDWARD MOGG. ADVERTISEMENT. In presenting to the Public the first part of this comprehensive work, embracing the southern division of the Kingdom, the Proprietor indulges a hope, that while conveying information, he will be found in some degree to have contributed to the amusement of the traveller.