Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) THE BRIGHTON ROAD HISTORIES OF THE ROADS BY CHARLES G. HARPER. THE BRIGHTON ROAD: The Classic Highway to the South. THE GREAT NORTH ROAD: London to York. THE GREAT NORTH ROAD: York to Edinburgh. THE DOVER ROAD: Annals of an Ancient Turnpike. THE BATH ROAD: History, Fashion and Frivolity on an old Highway. THE MANCHESTER AND GLASGOW ROAD: London to Manchester. THE MANCHESTER ROAD: Manchester to Glasgow. THE HOLYHEAD ROAD: London to Birmingham. THE HOLYHEAD ROAD: Birmingham to Holyhead. THE HASTINGS ROAD: And The "Happy Springs of Tunbridge." THE OXFORD, GLOUCESTER AND MILFORD HAVEN ROAD: London to Gloucester. THE OXFORD, GLOUCESTER AND MILFORD HAVEN ROAD: Gloucester to Milford Haven. THE NORWICH ROAD: An East Anglian Highway. THE NEWMARKET, BURY, THETFORD AND CROMER ROAD. THE EXETER ROAD: The West of England Highway. THE PORTSMOUTH ROAD. THE CAMBRIDGE, KING'S LYNX AND ELY ROAD. [Illustration: GEORGE THE FOURTH. _From the painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence, R.A._] _The_ BRIGHTON ROAD The Classic Highway to the South _By_ CHARLES G. HARPER _Illustrated by the Author, and from old-time Prints and Pictures_ [Illustration] LONDON: CECIL PALMER OAKLEY HOUSE, BLOOMSBURY STREET, W.C. 1 _First Published_ - 1892 _Second Edition_ - 1906 _Third and Revised Edition_ - 1922 Printed in Great Britain by C. TINLING & CO., LTD., 53, Victoria Street, Liverpool, and 187, Fleet Street, London. PREFACE _Many years ago it occurred to this writer that it would be an interesting thing to write and illustrate a book on the Road to Brighton. The genesis of that thought has been forgotten, but the book was written and published, and has long been out of print. And there might have been the end of it, but that (from no preconceived plan) there has since been added a long series of books on others of our great highways, rendering imperative re-issues of the parent volume._ _Two considerations have made that undertaking a matter of considerable difficulty, either of them sufficiently weighty. The first was that the original book was written at a time when the author had not arrived at a settled method; the second is found in the fact of the BRIGHTON ROAD being not only the best known of highways, but also the one most susceptible to change._