Thames Ditton 13-3/4 Esher 16 Cobham Street (cross River Mole) 19-1/2 Wisley Common 20-1/4 Ripley 23-1/2 Guildford (cross River Wey) 29-1/2 St. Catherine's Hill 30-1/2 Peasmarsh Common (cross River Wey) 31-1/4 Godalming 34 Milford 35-3/4 Moushill and Witley Commons 36-1/4 Hammer Ponds 38-1/2 Hindhead (Gibbet Hill) 41-1/4 Cold Ash Hill and "Seven Thorns" Inn 44-1/4 Liphook ("Royal Anchor") 46-3/4 Milland Common 47-1/2 Rake 50-1/4 Sheet Bridge (cross River Rother) 53-3/4 Petersfield 55 "Coach and Horses" 59 Horndean 62-1/2 Waterlooville and White Lane End 65-1/2 Purbrook (cross Purbrook stream) 66-1/2 Cosham 68-1/4 Hilsea 69-1/2 North End 70-3/4 Landport 71-1/2 Portsmouth Town 72 Portsmouth, Victoria Pier 73 _The Portsmouth Road_ I The Portsmouth Road is measured (or was measured when road-travel was the only way of travelling on _terra firma_, and coaches the chiefest machines of progression) from the Stone's End, Borough. It went by Vauxhall to Wandsworth, Putney Heath, Kingston-on-Thames, Guildford, and Petersfield; and thence came presently into Portsmouth through the Forest of Bere and past the frowning battlements of Porchester. The distance was, according to Cary,--that invaluable guide, philosopher, and friend of our grandfathers,--seventy-one miles, seven furlongs; and our forebears who prayerfully entrusted their bodies to the dangers of the roads and resigned their souls to Providence, were hurried along this route at the break-neck speed of something under eight miles an hour, with their hearts in their mouths and their money in their boots for fear of the highwaymen who infested the roads, from London suburbs to the gates of Portsmouth Citadel.