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SURVEY
OF
THE HIGH ROADS
OF
England and Wales.

PART THE FIRST.

COMPRISING THE COUNTIES OF

KENT, SURREY, SUSSEX, HANTS, WILTS, DORSET, SOMERSET,
DEVON, AND CORNWALL;

WITH

PART OF BUCKINGHAM AND MIDDLESEX.

PLANNED ON A SCALE OF ONE INCH TO A MILE.

EXHIBITING AT ONE VIEW

THE SEATS OF THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY,
WHETHER SITUATED ON, OR CONTIGUOUS TO, THE ROAD.

The various Branches of Roads and Towns to which they lead.

TOGETHER WITH

THE ACTUAL DISTANCE OF THE SAME FROM THE MAIN ROAD, RIVERS, NAVIGABLE CANALS, RAILWAYS, TURNPIKE GATES, &c. &c.

ACCOMPANIED BY

INDEXES,
TOPOGRAPHIC AND DESCRIPTIVE.

THE WHOLE
ENRICHED WITH A VARIETY OF VALUABLE AND ORIGINAL INFORMATION.

ARRANGED BY, AND UNDER THE DIRECTION OF,
EDWARD MOGG.

LONDON:
PUBLISHED BY EDWARD MOGG, No. 51, CHARING CROSS.
1817.

TO
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS
THE PRINCE REGENT.

Sir,

Your Royal Highness having graciously condescended to extend your august patronage and protection to this work, I cannot present it to the public, without testifying how deeply sensible I am of this most gracious mark of your Royal Highness’s approbation.

I am perfectly aware that no merit of the performance can give it pretensions to so exalted a patronage; yet to whom can this publication with so much propriety be addressed, as to that illustrious and magnanimous Prince, who, by his wisdom and councils, during the most arduous contest in which any nation was ever engaged, preserved us in the quiet enjoyment of that land, and, under whose auspicious guidance and government, has been raised to the highest pinnacle of glory that country, the topography and picturesque beauties of which it is the principal design of the following pages to illustrate.

That your Royal Highness may long live to be the ornament of society, the delight and boast of a grateful and admiring nation, is the ardent wish of,

Sir,
Your Royal Highness’s
most grateful,
most dutiful,
and most devoted servant,
EDWARD MOGG.

ADVERTISEMENT.

In presenting to the Public the first part of this comprehensive work, embracing the southern division of the Kingdom, the Proprietor indulges a hope, that while conveying information, he will be found in some degree to have contributed to the amusement of the traveller.

The gratification derived from an excursion of pleasure does not always terminate with its performance, but is often produced by reflections which naturally arise on a subsequent review of past occurrences or remarkable objects; and which the peculiar construction of this work is eminently calculated to assist.

In contemplating a new Road, we feel enlivened by anticipation; in the recollection of an old one, we are led to reflections that equally interest; and a recurrence to these pages will immediately present to the reader’s imagination the identical spot, or well known inn, which from a variety of incidents that occur in the prosecution of a journey, whether the remembrance be attended with pleasure or accompanied by a feeling of regret, never fail to leave an indelible impression on the mind.

It has been justly remarked by an eminent Geographer [1], that the Rivers of England have never yet been delineated; the same observation may be applied with equal truth, though still greater regret, with respect to its Roads, which (on a large scale) yet remain to be illustrated; how far the present work is likely to succeed in supplying the latter deficiency, it will remain for the public to decide. It is an object the Proprietor has long had in contemplation, and has thence been brought to greater perfection from an attentive observation of circumstances peculiarly connected with the subject, both in regard to the alteration of old, and the formation of new Roads, which, by avoiding hills and shortening distance, will be found to afford such facilities to travelling as are alone to be experienced on this island: accurately to delineate improvements so extensive, and which will in vain be sought in any other publication, are the pages of this work devoted.

[1] Pinkerton.

To comment on the superiority of the method of delineation here adopted were superfluous at the present time, when the Proprietor’s pretensions may be decided by comparison with the performances of predecessors in a similar course, and when indeed he feels confident of having thus far accomplished an undertaking, which, whether as referring to originality or execution, is considerably more entitled to attention than any known production of its kind; combining means so ample and illustrative, the Traveller is in possession of information nearly equal to a bird’s-eye view of the country. The Seats of the Nobility and Gentry are faithfully described, the names of their several Proprietors have been carefully attended to, and the arrangement of the whole so constructed as to render the work at once clear and comprehensive. Simplicity, joined to a strict accuracy, has been his chief aim, and he is unconscious of having omitted any thing which could have contributed to render the whole complete.

TABLE OF ROUTES.

To simplify as much as possible, and to facilitate the understanding of this work, the following Table of Routes is given; describing the page at which the commencement of each Road will be found, and which, where the same is not continued in a regular succession, will conduct, by reference to the pages, the eye of the reader with the most perfect ease to every place of consequence contained in the work.

LONDON to DOVER,—pages [1] to [10].

LONDON to MARGATE,—pages [1] to [8], to Canterbury; thence to Margate, pages [11] and [12].

LONDON to RAMSGATE,—pages [1] to [8], to Canterbury; thence to Monkton, where the Road turns off, pages [11] and [12]; thence to Ramsgate, page [13].

LONDON to HASTINGS,—pages [15] to [22].

LONDON to CANTERBURY,—pages [1] to [8].

LONDON to TUNBRIDGE WELLS,—pages [15] to [18], to Tunbridge; thence to Tunbridge Wells, page [14].

LONDON to PORTSMOUTH,—pages [23] to [32].

LONDON to CHICHESTER, by Midhurst,—pages [23] to [27], to Milford; thence to Chichester, pages [33] to [36].

LONDON to CHICHESTER, by Petworth,—pages [23] to [27], to Milford; thence to Chichester, pages [37] to [40].

LONDON to BOGNOR, by Chichester, (to Chichester as above)—thence to Bognor, page [41].

LONDON to BOGNOR, by Eartham,—to Milford, pages [23] to [27]; thence to Benges Wood, where the Road divides, pages [37] to [40]; thence to Bognor, by Eartham, page [42].

LONDON to ARUNDEL,—pages [23] to [27], to Milford; thence to Petworth, pages [37] to [38]; thence to Arundel, pages [43] and [44].

LONDON to BRIGHTON, through Sutton and Ryegate,—pages [45] to [51].

LONDON to BRIGHTON, through Croydon,—pages [52] to [54], to Ryegate; thence to Brighton, pages [47] to [51].

LONDON to BRIGHTON, by Lewes,—to Purley House, pages [52] and [53]; thence to Brighton, pages [55] to [60].

LONDON to WORTHING,—to Tooting, page [45]; thence to Worthing, pages [61] to [67].

LONDON to SOUTHAMPTON, by Basingstoke,—pages [69] to [79].

LONDON to SOUTHAMPTON, through Farnham,—to the Golden Farmer, pages [69] to [72]; thence to Winchester, pages [80] to [84]; thence to Southampton, pages [78] and [79].

LONDON to POOLE, through Romsey,—pages [69] to [77], to Winchester; thence to Poole, pages [85] to [90].

LONDON to POOLE, by Southampton, (to Southampton as above)—thence to the [82]nd Milestone, page [91]; thence to Poole, page [87] to [90].

LONDON to LYMINGTON, (to Southampton as above)—thence to Totton, page [91]; thence to Lymington, pages [92] and [93].

LONDON to CHRISTCHURCH,—to Winchester, pages [69] to [77]; thence to Ringwood, pages [85] to [88]; thence to Christchurch, page [94].

LONDON to GOSPORT,—pages [69] to [72], to the Golden Farmer; thence to Alton, pages [80] to [82]; thence to Gosport, pages [95] to [98].

LONDON to EXETER, through Andover, Salisbury, Blandford, and Dorchester,—to Basingstoke, pages [69] to [75]; thence to Exeter, pages [99] to [116].

LONDON to PLYMOUTH and FALMOUTH, (to Exeter as above)—thence to Plymouth, pages [117] to [122]; thence to Falmouth, pages [123] to [130].

LONDON to EXETER, through Stockbridge, Salisbury, and Shaftesbury,—to Basingstoke, pages [69] to [75]; thence to Axminster, pages [131] to [144]; thence to Exeter, pages [113] to [116].

LONDON to FALMOUTH, through Launceston, (to Exeter as above)—thence to Truro, pages [147] to [158]; thence to Falmouth, pages [129] and [130].

LONDON to EXETER, through Andover, commonly called the New Road,—to Basingstoke, pages [69] to [75]; thence to Andover, pages [99] to [101]; thence to Honiton, pages [159] to [170]; thence to Exeter, pages [114] to [116].

LONDON to WEYMOUTH,—to Basingstoke, pages [69] to [75]; thence to Dorchester, pages [99] to [109]; thence to Weymouth, page [171].

LONDON to BRUTON,—to Basingstoke, pages [69] to [75]; thence to Andover, pages [99] to [101]; thence to the [98]th Milestone on the Exeter Road, pages [159] to [163]; thence to Bruton, pages [172] and [173].

LONDON to BATH and EXETER, by Calne and Chippenham,—to Hounslow, pages [69] and [70]; thence to Bath and Exeter, pages [174] to [197].

LONDON to BATH and BRISTOL, by Devizes,—to Hounslow, pages [69] and [70]; thence to Beckhampton Inn, pages [174] to [184]; thence to Bath and Bristol, pages [198] to [203].

BATH to BRIGHTON, through Warminster, Salisbury, and Romsey,—pages [204] to [219].

BATH to BRIGHTON, through Salisbury and Southampton,—pages [204] to [211], to Romsey; thence through Southampton to Cosham, pages [220] to [223]; thence to Brighton, pages [214] to [219].