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THE BRIGHTON ROAD HISTORIES OF THE ROADS BY Charles G Harper THE BRIGHTON - photo 1
THE BRIGHTON ROAD
HISTORIES OF THE ROADS
BY
Charles G. Harper.
THE BRIGHTON ROAD: The Classic Highway to the South.
THE GREAT NORTH ROAD: London to York.
THE GREAT NORTH ROAD: York to Edinburgh.
THE DOVER ROAD: Annals of an Ancient Turnpike.
THE BATH ROAD: History, Fashion and Frivolity on an old Highway.
THE MANCHESTER AND GLASGOW ROAD: London to Manchester.
THE MANCHESTER ROAD: Manchester to Glasgow.
THE HOLYHEAD ROAD: London to Birmingham.
THE HOLYHEAD ROAD: Birmingham to Holyhead.
THE HASTINGS ROAD: And The Happy Springs of Tunbridge.
THE OXFORD, GLOUCESTER AND MILFORD HAVEN ROAD: London to Gloucester.
THE OXFORD, GLOUCESTER AND MILFORD HAVEN ROAD: Gloucester to Milford Haven.
THE NORWICH ROAD: An East Anglian Highway.
THE NEWMARKET, BURY, THETFORD AND CROMER ROAD.
THE EXETER ROAD: The West of England Highway.
THE PORTSMOUTH ROAD.
THE CAMBRIDGE, KINGS LYNX AND ELY ROAD.
GEORGE THE FOURTH.
From the painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence, R.A.
The
BRIGHTON ROAD
The Classic Highway to the South
By CHARLES G. HARPER
Illustrated by the Author, and from old-time
Prints and Pictures
London :
CECIL PALMER
Oakley House, Bloomsbury Street, W.C. 1
First Published - 1892
Second Edition - 1906
Third and Revised Edition - 1922
Printed in Great Britain by C. Tinling & Co., Ltd. ,
53, Victoria Street, Liverpool,
and 187, Fleet Street, London.

Preface
Many years ago it occurred to this writer that it would be an interesting thing to write and illustrate a book on the Road to Brighton. The genesis of that thought has been forgotten, but the book was written and published, and has long been out of print. And there might have been the end of it, but that (from no preconceived plan) there has since been added a long series of books on others of our great highways, rendering imperative re-issues of the parent volume.
Two considerations have made that undertaking a matter of considerable difficulty, either of them sufficiently weighty. The first was that the original book was written at a time when the author had not arrived at a settled method; the second is found in the fact of the Brighton Road being not only the best known of highways, but also the one most susceptible to change.
When it is remembered that motor-cars have come upon the roads since then, that innumerable sporting records in cycling, walking, and other forms of progression have since been made, and that in many other ways the road is different, it was seen that not merely a re-issue of the book, but a book almost entirely re-written and re-illustrated was required. This, then, is what was provided in a second edition, published in 1906. And now another, the third, is issued, bringing the story of this highway up to date.
CHARLES G. HARPER.
March, 1922.

THE ROAD TO BRIGHTON
MILES
Westminster Bridge (Surrey side) to
St. Marks Church, Kennington
Brixton Church
Streatham
Norbury
Thornton Heath
Croydon (Whitgifts Hospital)
Purley Corner
Smitham Bottom13
Coulsdon Railway Station14
Merstham17
Redhill (Market Hall)20
Horley (Chequers)
Povey Cross25
Kimberham Bridge (Cross River Mole)
Lowfield Heath
Crawley
Pease Pottage31
Hand Cross33
Staplefield Common34
Slough Green36
Whitemans Green37
Cuckfield37
Ansty Cross
Bridge Farm (Cross River Adur)40
St. Johns Common40
Friars Oak Inn42
Stonepound43
Clayton44
Pyecombe45
Patcham
Withdean48
Preston49
Brighton (Aquarium)51
The Sutton and Reigate Route
St. Marks, Kennington
Tooting Broadway
Mitcham
Sutton (Greyhound)
Tadworth
Lower Kingswood
Reigate Hill19
Reigate (Town Hall)20
Woodhatch (Old Angel)21
Povey Cross
Brighton51
The Bolney and Hickstead Route
Hand Cross33
Bolney
Hickstead40
Savers Common
Newtimber44
Pyecombe
Brighton50

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE
George the Fourth
Sketch-map showing Principal Routes to Brighton
Stage Waggon, 1808
The Talbot Inn Yard, Borough, about 1815
Me and My Wife and Daughter
The Duke of Beaufort Coach starting from the Bull and Mouth
Office, Piccadilly Circus, 1826
The Age, 1829, starting from Castle Square, Brighton
Sir Charles Dances Steam-carriage leaving London for Brighton, 1833
The Brighton Day Mails crossing Hookwood Common, 1838
The Age, 1852, crossing Ham Common
The Old Times, 1888
The Comet, 1890
John Mayall, Junior, 1869
The Stock Exchange Walk: E. F. Broad at Horley
Miss M. Foster, paced by Motor Cycle, passing Coulsdon
Kennington Gate: Derby Day, 1839
Streatham Common
Streatham
The Dining Hall, Whitgift Hospital
The Chapel, Hospital of the Holy Trinity
Croydon Town Hall
Chipstead Church
Merstham
Gatton Hall and Town Hall
The Switchback Road, Earlswood Common
Thunderfield Castle
The Chequers, Horley
The Six Bells, Horley
The Cock, Sutton, 1789
Kingswood Warren
The Suspension Bridge, Reigate Hill
The Tunnel, Reigate
Tablet, Batswing Cottages
The Floods at Horley
Charlwood
A Corner in Newdigate Church
On the Road to Newdigate
Ifield Mill Pond
Crawley: Looking South
Crawley, 1789
An Old Cottage at Crawley
The George, Crawley
Sculptured Emblem of the Holy Trinity, Crawley Church
Pease Pottage
The Red Lion, Hand Cross
Cuckfield, 1789
The Road out of Cuckfield
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