_For mere topography: let us maintain an invincible curiosity as to whence this river comes or whither it goes; as to what lies on the other side of yonder hill, or at the end of some alluring byway. Let us find entertainment in the manner in which the city, town, or village next on the map is different from those we have already passed; and with interests so varied the way will be all too short._ CHARLES G. HARPER. PETERSHAM, SURREY. _April, 1906._ THE ROAD TO HASTINGS MILES London Bridge— New Cross (New Cross Gate) 3¼ Loampit Hill 4½ (Cross Ravensbourne) Lewisham (St. Mary’s Church) 5¾ Rushey Green 6½ South End 7¾ (Cross Ravensbourne) Holloway 8¾ Bromley 10 Mason’s Hill 10¾ Bromley Common 12½ Lock’s Bottom 13¼ Farnborough 14 Green Street Green 15¼ Pratt’s Bottom 16¾ Halstead Station 18¼ Polhill 19½ Dunton Green 21¼ (Cross River Darent) Riverhead 22 Sevenoaks (Station: Tubb’s Hill) 23 “ Town 24 River Hill 25¼ Hildenborough 27¾ Tonbridge 30 (Cross River Medway) Pembury Green 35 Kipping’s Cross 36¼ Lamberhurst 40 Stone Crouch 43 Flimwell 44¾ Hurst Green 47¾ Silver Hill 48½ Robertsbridge 50¼ (Cross River Rother) John’s Cross 51¾ Battle 55½ Starr’s Green 56¾ Baldslow 59 Ore 61¾ Hastings (Old Town) 63½ INTO HASTINGS BY “NEW LONDON ROAD” Baldslow 59 Hollington 59¾ Silverhill 60½ Hastings (Albert Memorial) 62¼ [Illustration: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS] SEPARATE PLATES ENTRANCE TO HASTINGS, BY MINNIS ROCK AND THE OLD LONDON ROAD _Frontispiece_ PAGE