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THE EXETER ROAD

WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR
THE BRIGHTON ROAD: Old Times and New on a Classic Highway.
THE PORTSMOUTH ROAD, and its Tributaries, To-day and in Days Old.
THE DOVER ROAD: Annals of an Ancient Turnpike.
THE BATH ROAD: History, Fashion, and Frivolity on an Old Highway.
THE GREAT NORTH ROAD: Vol. I. London to York.	[In the Press.
II. York to Edinburgh.

THE LIONESS ATTACKING THE EXETER MAIL, WINTERSLOW HUT (AFTER JAMES POLLARD).

THE
E X E T E R R O A D

THE STORY OF
THE WEST OF ENGLAND HIGHWAY
By CHARLES G. HARPER
Author of The Brighton Road, The Portsmouth Road,
The Dover Road, and The Bath Road
Illustrated by the Author, and from Old-Time
Prints and Pictures
London: CHAPMAN & HALL, Limited
1899
All rights reserved

T HIS, the fifth volume in a series of works purporting to tell the Story of the Great Roads, requires but few forewords; but occasion may be taken to say that perhaps greater care has been exercised than in preceding volumes to collect and put on record those anecdotes and floating traditions of the country, which, the gossip of yesterday, will be the history of to-morrow. These are precisely the things that are neglected by the County Historians at one end of the scale of writers, and the compilers of guide-books at the other; and it is just because this gossip and these local anecdotes are generally passed by and often lost that those which are gathered now will become more valuable as time goes on.

For the inclusion of these hitherto unconsidered trifles much archology and much purely guide-book description have been suppressed; nor for this would it seem necessary to appear apologetic, even although local patriotism is a militant force, and resents anything less than a detailed and favourable description of every village, interesting or not.

How militant parochial patriots may be the writer already knows. You may criticise the British Empire and prophesy its downfall if you feel that way inclined, and welcome; but it is the Unpardonable Sin to say that Little Pedlington is anything less than the cleanest, the neatest, and the busiest for its size of all the Sweet Auburns in the land! Has not the writer been promised a bad quarter of an hour by the local press, should he revisit Crayford, after writing of that uncleanly place in the Dover Road ? and have the good folks of Chard still kept the tar and feathers in readiness for him who, daring greatly, presumed to say the place was so quiet that when the stranger appeared in its streets every head was out of doors and windows?

Point of view is everything. The stranger finds a place charming because everything in it is old, and quiet reigns supreme. Quietude and antiquity, how eminently desirable and delightful when found, he thinks. Not so the dweller in such a spot. He would welcome as a benefactor any one who would rebuild his house in modern style, and would behold with satisfaction the traffic of Cheapside thronging the grass-grown market-place.

No brief is held for such an one in these pages, nor is it likely that the professional antiquary will find in them anything not already known to him. The book, like all its predecessors, and like those that are to follow it, is intended for those who journey down the roads either in person or in imagination, and to their judgment it is left. In conclusion, let me acknowledge the valuable information with regard to Wiltshire afforded me by Cecil Simpson, Esq., than whom no one knows the county better.

CHARLES G. HARPER.

Petersham, Surrey ,
October 1899.

SEPARATE PLATES
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ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT
PAGE

THE ROAD TO EXETER

London (Hyde Park Corner) to
MILES
Kensington
St. Mary Abbots	1
Addison Road	2
Hammersmith	3
Turnham Green	5
Brentford
Star and Garter	6
Town Hall (cross River Brent and Grand Junction Canal)	7
Isleworth (Railway Station)	8
Hounslow (Trinity Church)	9
(Cross the Old River, a branch of the River Colne).
Baber Bridge (cross the New River, a branch of the River Colne)	11
East Bedfont	13
Staines Bridge (cross River Thames)	16
Egham	18
Virginia Water
Wheatsheaf	20
Sunningdale
Railway Station	22
Bagshot
Kings Arms	26
Jolly Farmer{xvi}	27
Camberley	29
York Town	29
Blackwater (cross River Blackwater)	30
Hartford Bridge	35
Hartley Row	36
Hook	40
Water End (for Nately Scures)	41
Mapledurwell Hatch (cross River Loddon)	43
Basingstoke
Market Place	45
Worting	47
Clerken Green, and Oakley
Railway Station	49
Dean	51
Overton	53
Laverstoke, and Freefolk	55
Whitchurch
Market House	56
Hurstbourne Priors	58
Andover
Market Place (cross River Anton)	63
Little Ann	65
Little (or Middle) Wallop (cross River Wallop)	70
Lobcombe Corner	73
Winterslow Hut (cross River Bourne)	75
Salisbury
Council House	81
West Harnham (cross River Avon)	82
Coombe Bissett (cross a branch of the River Avon)	84
Woodyates Inn	91
Cashmoor Inn	96
Tarrant Hinton (cross River Tarrant)	99
Pimperne{xvii}	101
Blandford
Market Place (cross River Stour)	103
Winterbourne Whitchurch (cross River Winterbourne)	108
Milborne St. Andrews (cross River Milborne)	111
Piddletown (cross River Piddle)	115
Troy Town (cross River Frome)	116
Dorchester
Town Hall	120
Winterbourne Abbas (cross River Winterbourne)	124
Travellers Rest	131
Bridport
Market House (cross River Brit)	134
Chideock	137
Morecomblake	138
Charmouth (cross River Char)