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PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
In the present edition a number of small errors have been corrected and a new chapter amplifying certain points and supplying a deficit here and there has been added. The passage about Stane Street is reprinted from the Times Literary Supplement by kind permission.
E. V. L. April 20, 1904

CONTENTS
PAGE
CHAPTER I
MIDHURST 1
CHAPTER II
MIDHURST'S VILLAGES 9
CHAPTER III
FIRST SIGHT OF THE DOWNS 23
CHAPTER IV
CHICHESTER 28
CHAPTER V
CHICHESTER AND THE HILLS 39
CHAPTER VI
CHICHESTER AND THE PLAIN 54
CHAPTER VII
ARUNDEL AND NEIGHBOURHOOD 68
CHAPTER VIII
LITTLEHAMPTON 75
CHAPTER IX
AMBERLEY AND PARHAM 84
CHAPTER X
PETWORTH 93
CHAPTER XI
BIGNOR 107
CHAPTER XII
HORSHAM 112
CHAPTER XIII
ST. LEONARD'S FOREST 123
CHAPTER XIV
WEST GRINSTEAD, COWFOLD AND HENFIELD 130
CHAPTER XV
STEYNING AND BRAMBER 135
CHAPTER XVI
CHANCTONBURY, WASHINGTON, AND WORTHING 145
CHAPTER XVII
BRIGHTON 160
CHAPTER XVIII
ROTTINGDEAN AND WHEATEARS 177
CHAPTER XIX
SHOREHAM 184
CHAPTER XX
THE DEVIL'S DYKE AND HURSTPIERPOINT 192
CHAPTER XXI
DITCHLING 207
CHAPTER XXII
CUCKFIELD 211
CHAPTER XXIII
FOREST COUNTRY AGAIN 221
CHAPTER XXIV
EAST GRINSTEAD 227
CHAPTER XXV
HORSTED KEYNES TO LEWES 233
CHAPTER XXVI
LEWES 239
CHAPTER XXVII
THE OUSE VALLEY 255
CHAPTER XXVIII
ALFRISTON 264
CHAPTER XXIX
SMUGGLING 273
CHAPTER XXX
GLYNDE AND RINGMER 280
CHAPTER XXXI
UCKFIELD AND BUXTED 292
CHAPTER XXXII
CROWBOROUGH AND MAYFIELD 301
CHAPTER XXXIII
HEATHFIELD AND THE "LIES" 307
CHAPTER XXXIV
EASTBOURNE 318
CHAPTER XXXV
PEVENSEY AND HURSTMONCEUX 328
CHAPTER XXXVI
HASTINGS 340
CHAPTER XXXVII
BATTLE ABBEY 348
CHAPTER XXXVIII
WINCHELSEA AND RYE 358
CHAPTER XXXIX
ROBERTSBRIDGE 376
CHAPTER XL
TUNBRIDGE WELLS 390
CHAPTER XLI
THE SUSSEX DIALECT 405
CHAPTER XLII
BEING A POSTSCRIPT TO THE SECOND EDITION 417
INDEX 439

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE
THE BARBICAN, LEWES CASTLE Frontispiece
COWDRAY 4
BLACKDOWN 10
COWDRAY 22
CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL 31
CHICHESTER CROSS 35
THE RUINED NAVE OF BOXGROVE 39
BOXGROVE PRIORY CHURCH 41
BOXGROVE FROM THE SOUTH 43
EAST LAVANT 49
BOSHAM 54
ARUNDEL 68
THE ARUN AT NORTH STOKE 71
GATEWAY, AMBERLEY CASTLE 84
AMBERLEY CASTLE 87
AMBERLEY CASTLE, ENTRANCE TO CHURCHYARD 89
AMBERLEY CHURCH 91
PULBOROUGH CHURCH 93
AT PULBOROUGH 95
STOPHAM BRIDGE 97
THE ROTHER AT FITTLEWORTH 99
ALMSHOUSE AT PETWORTH 101
PETWORTH CHURCHYARD 104
THE CAUSEWAY, HORSHAM 112
COTTAGES AT SLINFOLD 118
RUDGWICK 121
CHURCH STREET, STEYNING 135
STEYNING CHURCH 138
BRAMBER 140
COOMBES CHURCH 142
CHANCTONBURY RING 145
SOMPTING 153
LANCING 157
NEW SHOREHAM CHURCH 185
OLD SHOREHAM BRIDGE 188
OLD SHOREHAM CHURCH 189
POYNINGS, FROM THE DEVIL'S DYKE 193
HANGLETON HOUSE 196
MALTHOUSE FARM, HURSTPIERPOINT 200
DITCHLING 207
OLD HOUSE AT DITCHLING 208
CUCKFIELD CHURCH 212
EAST MASCALLS--BEFORE RENOVATION 219
THE JUDGE'S HOUSES, EAST GRINSTEAD 228
ON THE OUSE, ABOVE LEWES 239
HIGH STREET, SOUTHOVER 241
ANN OF CLEVES' HOUSE, SOUTHOVER 246
ST. ANN'S CHURCH, SOUTHOVER 251
THE OUSE AT SOUTH STREET, LEWES 253
THE OUSE AT PIDDINGHOE 255
RODMELL 256
PIDDINGHOE 258
SOUTHOVER GRANGE 261
NEAR TARRING NEVILLE 263
GLYNDE 282
FRAMFIELD 293
IN BUXTED PARK 298
BEACHY HEAD 318
BEACHY HEAD FROM THE SHORE 325
PEVENSEY CASTLE 329
WESTHAM 333
HURSTMONCEUX CASTLE 335
BATTLE ABBEY--THE GATEWAY 349
MOUNT STREET, BATTLE 352
BATTLE ABBEY, THE REFECTORY 355
THE LANDGATE, RYE 359
SEDILIA AND TOMBS OF GERVASE AND STEPHEN ALARD, WINCHELSEA 363
THE YPRES TOWER, RYE 365
COURT LODGE, UDIMORE 370
UDIMORE CHURCH 372
BREDE PLACE 373
BREDE PLACE, FROM THE SOUTH 375
BODIAM CASTLE 377
SHOYSWELL, NEAR TICEHURST 388
THE PANTILES, TUNBRIDGE WELLS 391
BAYHAM ABBEY 396
ASHDOWN FOREST, FROM EAST GRINSTEAD 403
MAP OF THE COUNTY OF SUSSEX End paper

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HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS IN SUSSEX
CHAPTER I
MIDHURST
The fitting order of a traveller's progress--The Downs the true Sussex--Fashion at bay--Mr. Kipling's topographical creed--Midhurst's advantages--Single railway lines--Queen Elizabeth at Cowdray--Montagus domestic and homicidal--The curse of Cowdray--Dr. Johnson at Midhurst--Cowdray Park.
If it is better, in exploring a county, to begin with its least interesting districts and to end with the best, I have made a mistake in the order of this book: I should rather have begun with the comparatively dull hot inland hilly region of the north-east, and have left it at the cool chalk Downs of the Hampshire border. But if one's first impression of new country cannot be too favourable we have done rightly in starting at Midhurst, even at the risk of a loss of enthusiasm in the concluding chapters. For although historically, socially, and architecturally north Sussex is as interesting as south Sussex, the crown of the county's scenery is the Downs, and its most fascinating districts are those which the Downs dominate. The farther we travel from the Downs and the sea the less unique are our surroundings. Many of the villages in the northern Weald, beautiful as they are, might equally well be in Kent or Surrey: a visitor suddenly alighting in their midst, say from a balloon, would be puzzled to name the county he was in; but the Downs and their dependencies are essential Sussex. Hence a Sussex man in love with the Downs becomes less happy at every step northward.
[Sidenote: THE INVIOLATE HILLS]
One cause of the unique character of the Sussex Downs is their virginal security, their unassailable independence. They stand, a silent undiscovered country, between the seething pleasure towns of the seaboard plain and the trim estates of the Weald. Londoners, for whom Sussex has a special attraction by reason of its proximity (Brighton's