The marvel-mongers who derive the name of Waddon from "Woden" find that Haling comes from the Anglo-Saxon "halig," or holy; and therefrom have built up an imaginary picture of ancient heathen rites celebrated here. The best we can say for those theories is that they _may_ be correct or they may not. Of evidence there is, of course, none whatever; and certainly it is to be feared that the inhabitants of Croydon care not one rap about it; nor even know--or knowing, are not impressed--that here, in 1624, died that great Lord High Admiral of England, Howard of Effingham. It is much more real to them that the tramcars are twopence all the way. At the beginning of Haling Park, immediately beyond the "Swan and Sugarloaf," the Croydon toll-gate barred the road until 1865. Beyond it, all was open country. It is a very different tale to-day, now the stark chalk downs of Haling and Smitham are being covered with houses, and the once-familiar great white scar of Haling Chalk Pit is being screened behind newly raised roofs and chimney-pots. The beginning of Purley is marked by a number of prominent public-houses, testifying to the magnificent thirst of the new suburb. You come past the "Swan and Sugarloaf" to the "Windsor Castle," the "Purley Arms," the "Red Deer," and the "Royal Oak"; and just beyond, round the corner, is the "Red Lion." At the "Royal Oak" a very disreputable and stony road goes off to the left. It looks like, and is, a derelict highway: once the main road to Godstone and East Grinstead, but now ending obscurely in a miserable modern settlement near the newly built station of Purley Oaks, so called by the Brighton Railway Company to distinguish it from the older Purley station--ex "Caterham Junction"--of the South Eastern line. It was here, at Purley House, or Purley Bury as it is properly styled, close by the few poor scrubby and battered remains of the once noble woodland of Purley Oaks, that John Horne Tooke, contentious partisan and stolid begetter of seditious tracts, lived--when, indeed, he was not detained within the four walls of some prison for political offences. [Sidenote: HORNE TOOKE]