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the towne to the King's Head; and hear that my
Lord Buckhurst and Nelly (Gwynne) are lodged at the next house, and
Sir Charles Sedley with them: and keep a merry house." This house,
next to the "King's Head," is still standing. A little further along the
street is the large red-brick building known to-day as Waterloo House.
It was built about the year 1680, and was then known as the New Inn.
The old banqueting-hall it contains is divided up now, for the building
is converted into shops.
Durdans, the residence of Lord Rosebery, is about ten minutes' walk
from the High Street. One can see the house and grounds from the
narrow lane leading to the downs.
[Illustration: HIGH STREET, EPSOM.
Showing one of the famous inns which flourished in the seventeenth
century.]

EPPING FOREST
=How to get there.=--From Liverpool Street or Fenchurch Street. Great
Eastern Railway. =Nearest Station.=--Theydon Bois. Other stations
near the forest are Chingford, Loughton, and Epping. =Distance from
London.=--15 miles. =Average Time.=--1 hour. Quickest train, 38
minutes.
1st 2nd 3rd =Fares.=--Single 2s. 8d. 1s. 11d. 1s. 3-1/2d. Return 3s. 9d.
2s. 11d. 1s. 11d.
Those who wish to ramble through Epping Forest off the beaten paths
should carry a compass and a map, so that they do not merely keep in
one section of the forest, and thus miss some of the tracts which are
quite distinct in character to others. The best days during the summer
for having the glades to one's self are Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday,
but during the winter the whole place is left to the keepers and the
feathered inhabitants of the forest. During spring and autumn one also
finds that the grassy walks are left almost entirely alone, and at these
periods the forest is at its very best. Those who have only visited it in
the height of summer, when the foliage is perhaps drooping a little,
when the birds are not singing, and when there are traces of more than
one picnic party, have no idea of the true beauty of the forest. A herd of
deer are allowed to breed in the wilder and less frequented portions if
the forest, and these add much to the charm of some of the umbrageous
by-paths when one suddenly disturbs a quietly grazing group. Queen
Elizabeth's hunting lodge, which adjoins the Forest Hotel at Chingford,
is a restored three-storied and much gabled building, constructed of
plastered brickwork and framed with oak. It seems that the building
originally had no roof, but merely an open platform, from which one
could obtain a good comprehensive view of any sport going on in the
vicinity. The lodge has now been made the home of a museum of
objects of antiquity discovered in the forest. The special points of
Epping Forest which should be included in a long day's ramble are
Connaught Water, a lake near Chingford; High Beach, an elevated
portion of the forest possessing some splendid beeches; the earthwork
known as Loughton Camp, which probably belongs to pre-Roman

times, and Ambresbury Banks, towards Epping. This camp is said to
have been the last fortress of the Britons under Boadicea. From here
they are believed to have marched against the Romans to receive the
crushing defeat inflicted upon them.
[Illustration: A GLADE AMONG THE BEECHES IN EPPING
FOREST.]

HAMPTON COURT
=How to get there.=--South-Western Railway. Waterloo Station.
=Nearest Station.=--Hampton Court. =Distance from London.=--15
miles. =Average Time.=--3/4 hour.
1st 2nd 3rd =Fares.=--Single 2s. 0d. 1s. 6d. 1s. 2-1/2d. Return 2s. 9d. 2s.
0d. 1s. 10d.
=Accommodation Obtainable.=--"Castle Hotel," "Mitre Hotel," "The
King's Arms Hotel," "Greyhound Hotel," etc. =Alternative Route.=--By
steamboats from London Bridge, etc., during the summer months.
Within a few hundred yards of the Hampton Court station on the
London and South-Western Railway stands the magnificent palace of
Hampton Court, originally erected by Cardinal Wolsey for his own
residence, and after his sudden downfall appropriated by his ungrateful
master Henry VIII. for his private use and property.
The approach from the station lies through a pair of finely designed
wrought-iron gates to the north frontage of the palace, erected by
Wolsey himself. This front is all in the fine red-brick architecture of the
period, with quaint gables, small mullioned windows, and a collection
of moulded and twisted red-brick chimneys of wonderfully varied
designs. The entrance through the gatehouse, flanked by two towers, is
under a massive Tudor gateway, and leads into an inner quadrangle and
thence into a second court, both of the same picturesque character. In
these inner courts are the suites of rooms given as residences by royal
favour, and on the left-hand side is Wolsey's great banqueting-hall,

with a magnificent open timber roof.
The southern and eastern portions, with the Fountain Court and the
splendid frontage to the gardens, were