Chapter II: Preface: To the Second Edition

In the present edition a number of small errors have been corrected and a new chapter amplifying certain points and supplying a deficit here and there has been added. The passage about Stane Street is reprinted from the _Times Literary Supplement_ by kind permission.

E. V. L.
_April 20, 1904_

CONTENTS

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CHAPTER I

MIDHURST 1

CHAPTER II

MIDHURST'S VILLAGES 9

CHAPTER III

FIRST SIGHT OF THE DOWNS 23

CHAPTER IV

CHICHESTER 28

CHAPTER V

CHICHESTER AND THE HILLS 39

CHAPTER VI

CHICHESTER AND THE PLAIN 54

CHAPTER VII

ARUNDEL AND NEIGHBOURHOOD 68

CHAPTER VIII

LITTLEHAMPTON 75

CHAPTER IX

AMBERLEY AND PARHAM 84

CHAPTER X

PETWORTH 93

CHAPTER XI

BIGNOR 107

CHAPTER XII

HORSHAM 112

CHAPTER XIII

ST. LEONARD'S FOREST 123

CHAPTER XIV

WEST GRINSTEAD, COWFOLD AND HENFIELD 130

CHAPTER XV

STEYNING AND BRAMBER 135

CHAPTER XVI

CHANCTONBURY, WASHINGTON, AND WORTHING 145

CHAPTER XVII

BRIGHTON 160

CHAPTER XVIII

ROTTINGDEAN AND WHEATEARS 177

CHAPTER XIX

SHOREHAM 184

CHAPTER XX

THE DEVIL'S DYKE AND HURSTPIERPOINT 192

CHAPTER XXI

DITCHLING 207

CHAPTER XXII

CUCKFIELD 211

CHAPTER XXIII

FOREST COUNTRY AGAIN 221

CHAPTER XXIV

EAST GRINSTEAD 227

CHAPTER XXV

HORSTED KEYNES TO LEWES 233

CHAPTER XXVI

LEWES 239

CHAPTER XXVII

THE OUSE VALLEY 255

CHAPTER XXVIII

ALFRISTON 264

CHAPTER XXIX

SMUGGLING 273

CHAPTER XXX

GLYNDE AND RINGMER 280

CHAPTER XXXI

UCKFIELD AND BUXTED 292

CHAPTER XXXII

CROWBOROUGH AND MAYFIELD 301

CHAPTER XXXIII

HEATHFIELD AND THE "LIES" 307

CHAPTER XXXIV

EASTBOURNE 318

CHAPTER XXXV

PEVENSEY AND HURSTMONCEUX 328

CHAPTER XXXVI

HASTINGS 340

CHAPTER XXXVII

BATTLE ABBEY 348

CHAPTER XXXVIII

WINCHELSEA AND RYE 358

CHAPTER XXXIX

ROBERTSBRIDGE 376

CHAPTER XL

TUNBRIDGE WELLS 390

CHAPTER XLI

THE SUSSEX DIALECT 405