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The Project Gutenberg eBook of Highways and Byways in Surrey, by Eric Parker, Illustrated by Hugh Thomson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Highways and Byways in Surrey Author: Eric Parker Release Date: February 12, 2009 [eBook #28057] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS IN SURREY*** E-text prepared by Colin Bell, Jane Hyland, Internet Archive (Canadian Libraries), and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 28057-h.htm or 28057-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/8/0/5/28057/28057-h/28057-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/8/0/5/28057/28057-h.zip) Transcriber's note: A letter with a line or macron over it is preceded by an equal sign and enclosed within square brackets (example: [=o]). Superscripts are denoted by a carat character (example: "ix^th day"). HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS IN SURREY * * * * * MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED LONDON. BOMBAY. CALCUTTA. MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK. BOSTON. CHICAGO. ATLANTA. SAN FRANCISCO THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO * * * * * [Illustration: _High Street, Guildford._] HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS IN SURREY by ERIC PARKER With Illustrations by Hugh Thomson MacMillan and Co., Limited St. Martin's Street, London 1909 Richard Clay and Sons, Limited, Bread Street Hill, E.C., and Bungay, Suffolk. First Edition, 1908 Reprinted, 1909 PREFACE A preface ought not to contain an apology. But mine must contain at least an explanation, if only of omissions. The Highways and Byways of Surrey belong not to one county or to one period of time, but to two different ages, and, to-day, to two counties. London has made the difference. What was Surrey country a hundred years ago has been gathered into the network of London streets, and belongs, in the mind and on the map, to London. Almost for
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