Chapter VII: Part III: The Individual Character of Sussex and the Way to See the County (2)

It is an almost universal rule that old harbours from which the sea has retreated, but to which the waterway still exists, are difficult of access, and Rye is no exception to this rule. There extends for more than a mile from the shore a mass of peaty mud through which the sea-bed of the river winds in a most tortuous fashion; at half-tide it is almost impossible to follow it if one has had no local experience. The matter is made worse from the fact that the channel is very poorly marked; its first entrance from the sea is impossible to discover in thick weather and not too easy upon a clear day. All this is a pity, for if Rye were still as accessible

[Sidenote: HASTINGS BAY]

as is say Arundel, or even Bosham, it would form the most charming of all entries into the county, with its pyramid of old red roofs and its deep and visible history.

From Rye all the way across the bay to Beachy Head there is no haven, nor for the matter of that any difficulty for a small craft, save that the shore is very flat between Hastings and Eastbourne, and that, as one’s course takes one well out, it is not easy to fix landmarks. In good weather, of course, Beachy Head is a most prominent object all the way, and the light below it a perfect mark at night, but a very little haze is enough to make a yachtsman who is following alongshore get a mile or two in or out, especially as a strong tideway runs in between Pevensey Bay and the Royal Sovereign shoals. Rounding Beachy Head itself is easy enough work except when a strong northerly wind is blowing. On these occasions the Head, which is very abrupt, and the cliffs to the west of it, have a way of spilling sharp gusts unexpectedly down on to the water beneath. The present writer has seen a five-tonner under three reefs and a storm jib all but swamped within half a mile of the shore by one of these puffs, which are especially dangerous from the fact that there is no telling quite in what direction they will come. A full north-easterly wind on the starboard quarter as one rounds the head can give one a set-back in the shape of an unexpected gust coming round from right ahead out of Birling Gap. The only rule when the wind is blowing strong off-shore is to keep well out--irritating as it is to have to do so when one is making Newhaven, since every tack towards the outside means another mile to be beaten inwards against the weather.

Some years ago it would have been necessary to warn the reader of a small reef which runs out from Beachy Head and is especially dangerous at high water, but a new lighthouse is now fixed upon this reef and the old danger no longer exists.

Newhaven Harbour, as we have seen upon a previous page, is the most serious commercial harbour upon the coast. It is the only one before which there is not some considerable bar, and it goes without saying that small boats, such as we are supposing, can enter freely at any state of the tide; but it is by no means the easiest of the Sussex rivers for a small boat to _lie_ in. It has a heavy traffic both of trade and passengers, conveyed in large steamers along a rather narrow river, and until a dock for large craft has been constructed it

[Sidenote: SHOREHAM HARBOUR]

will always be a rather anxious place to get in and out of, especially as there is a very strong tide in the Ouse. A dozen miles or so farther westward along the coast is the modern entrance of Shoreham Harbour. This harbour has a rather awkward bar, and it is not infrequently necessary to wait for the tide; moreover the tideway runs like a stream right athwart the mouth, and therefore tends to make one run dangerously near the pier-heads if the wind is light, but, once this bar is crossed and the piers past, Shoreham still affords very good moorings for a small boat, and it also is well situated for proceeding in any direction inland; but one must be careful to take the right-hand or eastern branch of the harbour, and not to go up the river on the left-hand side, as the former is deep, secure, and well-wharfed, while the latter has steep, shingly banks, and soon becomes extremely shallow.

At much the same distance from Shoreham that Shoreham is from Newhaven will be found the harbour of Littlehampton, which is in some ways the best of all as a centre or goal for small craft. Its great drawback is its bar, which is the worst in the whole county, worse even than that of the Rother. In spite of continual dredging this bar is perpetually appearing above the surface at low spring tides, and it is hopeless to attempt to enter at any draught of water before half-tide. The bar is, however, quite close to the end of the pier; there is good holding ground for anchor, and signals of showing from the pier-head signal-staff clearly indicate the depth over the bar at any moment. The heavy gales from the south-west, which are the only dangerous ones on those parts of the coast (with the exception of some very rare south-easterly gales), are broken for Littlehampton by the Owers Bank, and to some extent by the group of rocks which run eastward from them, and there are very few days when it is not safe to anchor outside and wait for the tide.

Once inside, the Arun will be found the most practicable and the most delightful of Sussex rivers for the sailor. There is depth for seagoing vessels all the way up to Arundel, the approach to which is perhaps the most striking approach to a port to be found in England. Half-way on this journey is a rolling railway bridge, but there is no other obstruction and plenty of water all the way. At Arundel is the first permanent bridge, but a small boat, or a boat with a lowering mast, can go on much farther up the river. The tide will carry one, when there is

[Sidenote: THE ARUN]

no backwater or flood, as high as Pulborough in the heart of the county.

Formerly all the Sussex rivers gave this opportunity for entering from the sea into the centre of the countryside, to which was doubtless due the only too thorough results of the pirate raids in the early part of our history. Thus a Danish ship has been found right up the Rother on the Kentish border near Northiam, at a place where the river is now no more than a brook. Similarly it was easy to sail up the Ouse far beyond Lewes. As we have previously remarked, the Adur was a navigable river till recent times almost as far as Shipley. At present the Arun alone of these waterways remains. It owes its preservation to the fact that the care of man has never been allowed to lapse upon its banks. Its high dykes (still called by the Norman-French name of “rives”) have always been carefully maintained, and where the old river was silting up (as for instance in the great bend by Burpham) new cuts have preserved the scouring of the channel. We must, however, regret that in this direction the canal system by which the Arun was linked up with the rest of England has been deliberately allowed to go to pieces. There used to be a waterway from Ford to Chichester, which made the most delightful of inland excursions, and of which Turner has painted a famous picture. It is now nothing but a dry ditch. Higher up near Hardham another waterway led across the great bend of the river to Stopham and continued, as a canal parallel to the stream, across the Weald until the upper waters of the Wey were reached, and through them the Thames valley. It was therefore quite easy until the destruction of the canal to go by water from the Sussex coast to Weybridge. It is typical of our modern politics that a national advantage of this sort should have been thrown away by Parliament in its subservience to the railway interest, and it is to be hoped that that advantage will soon be regained. The trench is still there and the emplacement of the old locks, and the sum required to put the canal into use again would certainly be recovered in a few years of pleasure traffic alone.

The last of the harbours we have to consider is that ramification of creeks on the extreme west of the county known collectively as “Chichester Harbour.” Here also there is a very bad bar and a complicated entrance. From Littlehampton a small boat should make for the point of Selsea Bill and so creep through Looe stream. But she

[Sidenote: CHICHESTER HARBOUR]

must take care to do this on an ebb-tide, for it is impossible to get through against the flood.

Even for quite small vessels the entry of Chichester Harbour is navigable only at high tide, but the exploration of it is delightful, whether one runs up Fishbourne Creek (which lands one near to Chichester) or, leaving this on the right, one goes straight on to the wharf of Bosham. There is, unfortunately, no river running from these creeks up into the county, but they form an excellent and sheltered mooring from which to start upon sails into the Solent just to hand.

This method of learning the county, the entry from the sea, is the most natural, the most historic, and the most germane to the nature of Sussex. Every port one enters is the port of Rape, every river up which one’s dinghy takes one is the river along which the penetration of the county has proceeded in past times, and one upon which its principal market-towns will be found. So Chichester, Arundel, Steyning, Lewes, can be reached, and with more difficulty towns farther up the country. The whole manner in which Sussex has grown up is impressed upon the man who enters it from the Channel.

Unfortunately it is the least familiar and perhaps least easy of all the ways in which the county may be approached, but those who care to try the experiment will find themselves well repaid for the exertion the method involves, especially as they explore one of those valleys which lead through the Downs and reveal section by section, as one goes up stream, every distinctive portion and contrast of the countryside, until the heart of the Weald is reached, and the traveller can see from his boat, as the pirate of the fifth century saw from a wider and more marshy stream, the long, straight escarpment of the hills closing the horizon and defining the land to which he was to give his language and his tribal name.

INDEX

Adur, River, 39, 40

Aella, legend of, 60

Alfordean Bridge, on Stane Street, 58

Amberley, antiquity of, 111
goes back to eighth century, 105
on old British trackway under the Downs, 15
position on Arun, 36, 37

Amberley Castle, 110

Anderida, legend of fall of, 60-61
upon site of Pevensey, 53

Angerming, mentioned in Doomsday, 105

Arun, maritime portion of, 38

Arun River, 35, 36
its advantages for sailing and boating, 186-188

Arundel, absence of Roman relics in, 53
early fortification of, 66
original site of bridge of, 109
Rape of. _See_ Rape of Arundel river valley of, 37
town of, probable great antiquity of, 107-109

Arundel Castle, new cut-flint work in, 32
view from river, 37, 38

Ashburnham, family of, 126

Ashington, family of, 14

Bar, absence of, at mouth of Ouse, 41

Bar, at mouth of Adur, 39

Barlavington, mentioned in Doomsday, 105

Barnham, mentioned in Doomsday, 105

Bartelotts of Stopham, 127

Battle, Monastery of, 119
position of, 44

Battle of Hastings, 71-74

Beach, value of to early navigators, 4

Beachy Head, 179
difficulties of sailing under, 183, 184

Beeding, mentioned in Alfred’s will, 101

“Belts” for principal longitudinal divisions of Sussex, 10, 11

Bexhill, mentioned in Doomsday, 92

Bignor, mentioned in Doomsday, 105
example of sand formation in the Weald, 14
on old British trackway under the Downs, 15
Roman pavement of, on Stane Street, 55

Billingshurst, 113
on Stane Street, 58

Binsted, mentioned in Doomsday, 105

Bishopric, first Sussex, founded, 64

Blunt, family of, 127, 133, 134 191

Bosham, mentioned in Doomsday, 116

Boundaries of Sussex, east and west, 5

Boundary, northern, of Sussex, nature of, 8

Boxgrove, Monastery of, arises on the Roman Road, 118
on Stane Street, 55

Bramber, a parliamentary borough, 101

Bramber Castle, 99-100
continuity of possession of, 100
example of flint building, 31
early fortification of, 66
on old British trackway under the Downs, 15

Braose, first overlord of Rape of Bramber, 99

Brighton, importance of in Rape of Lewes, 83
modern development of, 137, 138

British Road under Downs, 15

Buckman’s Farm, on Stane Street, 58

Burford Bridge, on Stane Street, 54

Burpham, mentioned in Doomsday, 105
on Arun, 37

Burrell, first Member for Rape of Bramber, 103, 104

Burton, mentioned in Doomsday, 105
example of sand formation in the Weald, 14

Bury, on old British trackway under the Downs, 15
example of sand formation in the Weald, 14
mentioned in Doomsday, 105

Buttolphs, mentioned in Doomsday, 101
position on Adur, 39

Buxted, late development of, 91

Canals from Arun, disused, 187, 188

Castle Arundel, new cut-flint work in, 32
at Arundel, 37, 38
Bramber, example of flint building, 31

Castles, secondary, of Sussex, 98, 99

Chanctonbury Ring, 24, 176

Chichester Harbour, difficulty of entry for small craft, 188, 189
marsh bounding Sussex to west, 5

Chichester, principal town of coastal plain, 11
site of capital of the Regni, 48

Christian religion destroyed by invasions, 62, 63

Climping, mentioned in Doomsday, 105

Coastal Plain, 11, 12
character of landscape of, 154, 155
track of journey along, 180

Coast, Sussex, cruising along, 181-190

Cobden’s Farm, upon belt of loam under the Downs, 14

Cocking, mentioned in Doomsday, 116

Cold Harbour on Stane Street, 55

Combe, parish of, position on Adur, 39

Coombes, mentioned in Doomsday, 101

Counties, English, their characteristics, 1, 2

Crowborough, disfigurement of, 147

Crowhurst, mentioned in Doomsday, 92

Cuckfield, date of origin of, 84
Manor of, history of, 128

Cuckmere River, 41

Dawtreys of Petworth, 126

De Albinis, successors to Montgomerys, 106

Devil’s Dyke, 177

Dew pans on Downs, 25

Doomsday, survey of Lewes Rape, 81-84

Dorking Churchyard, on Stane Street, 54

Downs, difficulty of building on, 21
earthworks on, 26, 27
roads across, fewness of, 34
system of dew pans, 25
uninhabited, 19
villages to south of, 29
villages under escarpment of, 28
woods of, 22, 23
South, backbone of Sussex, 2
contour of, 9
direction of axis of, 10
nature of, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
_see also_ South Downs

Duncton, mentioned in Doomsday, 105

Eartham, Manor of, history of, 129

Earthworks on Downs, 26, 27

Eastbourne, 141

Eastergate, mentioned in Doomsday, 105

Ecclesiastical power in Rape of Chichester, 115, 116

Edward the Confessor, importance of reign of, 68

Egdean, example of sand formation in the Weald, 14

English counties, their characteristics, 1, 2

Felpham, mentioned in Doomsday, 105

Feudalism, strength of, in Sussex, 78

Firle Beacon, 179

Fittleworth, its position on Western Rother, 36

Fitz Alans, successors to the de Albinis, 106

Five Oaks Green, on Stane Street, 58

Flint, method of building with, 30, 31, 32

Forest Ridge, 8, 11, 12

Fortification, primitive, example of at Kithurst Hill, 175

Frant, 90

Fulcking, on old British trackway under the Downs, 15

Gainsford, family of, 126

Godwin, a Sussex man, 68
his estates in Sussex, 69

Goring, family of, 126

Goring, mentioned in Doomsday, 105

Graffham, mentioned in Doomsday, 116
example of sand formation in the Weald, 14
Manor and history of, 129

Gumber Corner, view from, 163-173

Hailsham, mentioned in Doomsday, 91

Halnecker Hill, on Stane Street, 55

Harbours, nature of Sussex, 3

Hardham, mentioned in Doomsday, 105
Monastery of, arises on the Roman Road, 118
Roman camp at, on Stane St., 56

Hasting, the pirate, his raid, 66, 93

Hastings, Battle of, 71-74
Castle of, 93-97
example of value of a beach, 4
importance of beach to early shipping, 93-95
name of, 93
origins of, 93-97
Rape of. _See_ Rape of Hastings

Hastings Bay, method of crossing, 183

“Hastings Plain,” site of Battle of Hastings, 71

Hayward’s Heath, 13

Henfield, mentioned in Doomsday, 101

Heyshott, example of sand formation in the Weald, 14
mentioned as Percy Land, 117

Highden, original home of the Gorings, 176

Horsham, pronunciation of name of, 150
rises in thirteenth century, 101, 102

Houghton, crossing of Arun at, 111, 112

Houghton Forest, 113

Howards, successors to Albinis, 106
successors to Mowbrays, 100, 101

Hurstpierpoint, survey of Rape of Lewes, 83

Invasion, Saxon, of Sussex, 60-64

Iron industry, importance of to Rape of Pevensey, 90

Iron industry of Weald, antiquity of, 59

Juniper Hall, on Stane Street, 54

Keymer, survey of Rape of Lewes, 83

Kithurst Hill, 175

Knepp Castle, 104

Lancing, mentioned in Doomsday, 101

Landscapes of Sussex, 150-155

Lavington, example of sand formation in the Weald, 14
on old British trackway under the Downs, 15

Lewes, early fortification of, 66
importance of in Saxon times, 67
Norman Castle in, 81
position of on Ouse, 41
Rape of (_see also_ Rape of Lewes), 79-85
site of Battle of, 178
town, characteristics of, 80

Linch Down, 162

Littlehampton, at mouth of Arun, 38
difficulty of entry, and outside anchorage described, 185, 186

Loam, belt of, villages upon, 14

Looe Stream, 65

Madehurst, Manor of, history of, 129

Marshes bounding Sussex to east and west, 5
destruction of Roman roads in, 6

Mayfield, first of Sussex line of ecclesiastical palaces, 90

Midhurst, its position on Western Rother, 36
late development of, 117

Monasteries of Sussex, 117-119

Montgomerys, first overlords of Rape of Arundel, 106

Morton, first overlord of Rape of Pevensey, 87

Mount Caburn, example of prehistoric fortification, 91

Mowbrays, successors to Braose, 100

Nature of Sussex Harbours, 3

Newhaven Harbour, advantages and disadvantages of, for small craft, 184

Newhaven, position at mouth of Ouse, 41

Newtimber, Manor of, history of, 131

Norman Conquest in Sussex, 69-74

Northchapel, 113

Northern boundary of Sussex, nature of, 8

Northstoke on Arun, 37

Ockley (in Surrey), on Stane Street, 54

Ouse, river, 40, 41

Owers Lightship, 65

Oxenbridge, family of, 126

Palmers of Angerming, 126

Parham, mentioned in Doomsday, 105

Peasantry of Sussex, character of, 144, 148

Petworth, mentioned in Doomsday, 105

Pevensey, ancient geographical position of, 89
Celtic derivation of the name, 87
decline of, 89, 90
Level, termination of the Wealdon flats on the sea, 11
Rape of, _see_ Rape of Pevensey
Roman remains in, 88
site of Anderida, 53
William the Conqueror lands there, 71

Pine trees, comparatively recent in Sussex, 153-154

Place names, Sussex, 61
of Sussex, pronunciation of, 149, 150

Plain, Coastal, _see_ Coastal

Poynings, on old British trackway under the Downs, 15

Prehistory of Sussex unknown, 47

Pulborough, its position on Arun, 36
mentioned in Doomsday, 105

Pulborough Bridge, point where Stane Street crossed the Arun, 57

Rackham Hill, 175

Rape of Arundel, 104-113
Arundel, Montgomerys first overlords of, 106
Bramber, 99-104

Rape of Bramber, Braose first overlord of, 99
Chichester, 113-117
Hastings, 91-99
Lewes, growth of, 79-85
its central character, 85
original harbour of, 82
Lewes, William of Warren first overlord of, 82
Pevensey, 87-91
Pevensey, importance of iron industry, 90
Pevensey, Morton first overlord of, 87
Pevensey, shape of, 86

Rapes, divisions of Sussex, 77
number and origin of, 78

Regni, Sussex tribe, 48

Ridge, forest, 8

Rings of woods on Downs, 24

Rivers of Sussex, 3, 35-44
give rise to earliest settlements, 4

River valley, nature of Sussex, 42

River valleys of Sussex, not used by main roads, 21, 22

Robertsbridge, 91
Monastery of, 118
position of, on Rother, 44

Roman basis of Sussex civilisation, 48-59
camp at Hardham, on Stane Street, 56
fortifications at Alfordean Bridge, 58
Road, Stane Street, crossing Arun, 36
Road, Stane Street, fully described, 54-58
Roads destroyed in marshes, 6

Roman’s Wood, on Stane Street, 58

Rother, river of, 43, 44
Valley of, marshes in, bound Sussex eastward, 5
Western, 35

Rotherfield, antiquity of, 90

Rottingdean, in Doomsday survey of Rape of Lewes, 83
modern disfigurement of, 139

Rusper, late mention of, 102

Rye, antiquity and original conditions of, 92
harbour of, difficulty of entry, 182

Saddlescombe, 177

Saint Wilfrid, story of, 64

Sand formations in the Weald, 13

Saxon invasions of Sussex, 60-64

See of Selsea, founded, 64

Senlac, discussion of the name, 72

Shelleys, family of, 127, 132, 133

Shipley, developed in twelfth century, 101

Shoreham Harbour, entry of for small craft, described, 185

Shoreham, Old, position on Adur, 39
rise and decline of, 102-103

Singleton, in Doomsday, 116
Manor of, history of, 130

Slinfold, 113

South Downs, backbone of Sussex, 3
contour of, 9
journey along crest of described, 161-180

Southstoke on Arun, 37

Squires, rise of the power of, and disintegration of feudal system, 119-125

St. Denis, monastery of, original lords of Rotherfield, 90

“St. George and the Dragon” Inn at Houghton, 112

St. Leonard’s Forest, originallv Braose Land, 102

Stane Street, appearance of Gumber Corner, 171, 172
Roman road, crossing Arun, 36
fully described, 54-58

Stenes, southern valleys of Downs, 23

Steyning, on old British trackway under the Downs, 15

Stopham, junction of Western Rother and Arun, 35
mentioned in Doomsday, 105

Storrington, mentioned in Doomsday, 105
on old British trackway under the Downs, 15

Strickland, family of, 126

Sussex, bounded by the Weald, 2
character of peasant in, 144
created from the sea, 2
east, gradual disfigurement of, 146
epithet “Scilly” applied to, 117
exploration of east and west, 159-161
feudalism, strength of, 78
general plan of, 45, 46
grouped round the South Downs, 2
isolation in prehistoric times, 47
landscapes of, 150-155
natural boundaries of, east and west, 5
northern boundary of, nature of, 8
peasant, character of, 148
peculiar dialect of, somewhat exaggerated, 143
place names, 51
place names, pronunciation of, 149, 150
rivers, 3, 35-44
rivers of, determined the first settlements, 4
sharp division in east and west, 144
towns developed later according to distance from sea, 7

Sutton, mentioned in Doomsday, 105

Thatch, excellence of in Sussex, 135

Theakham, 14

Tortington, mentioned in Doomsday, 105
Monastery of, 119

Towns, Sussex, developed later according to distance from sea, 7

Tumuli above Duncton Hill, 27
on Downs, 27

Uckfield, late development of, 91

Upper Waltham, mentioned in Doomsday, 105

Valleys, to south of Downs, called stenes, 23

Villages to south of Downs, 29
under escarpment of Downs, 29

Walberton, mentioned in Doomsday, 105

Warren, the family of overlords of Rape of Lewes, 79

Warren, William of, first overlord of Rape of Lewes, 82

Washington, on old British trackway under the Downs, 15
pass over Downs at, 176

Watering-places, growth of, 136-142

Weald and parishes, shape of, 8
bounding Sussex to the north, 2
forest track through, present itinerary of described, 156-159
general character of, 12, 13
its military function at Norman Conquest, 73-76

West Dean House, example of flint building, 32

West Hampnet, on Stane Street, 54

Wilfrid, Saint, story of, 64

Willingdon Hill, 179

Winchelsea, antiquity of and original conditions of, 92

Wolstonbury Hill, 177

Woods of the Downs, 22, 23

Worth, last stage of development of Rape of Lewes, 84

Yapton, 11

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75 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

Painted by A. S. FORREST Described by S. L. BENSUSAN

=Morocco=

74 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

By AUGUSTINE FITZGERALD Text by SYBIL FITZGERALD

=Naples=

80 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

Painted by NICO JUNGMAN Described by BEATRIX JUNGMAN

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75 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

Painted by JOHN FULLEYLOVE, R. I. Described by EDWARD THOMAS

=Oxford=

60 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

Painted by ALBERTO PISA Text by M. A. R. TUKER and HOPE MALLESON

=Rome=

70 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

Painted by SUTTON PALMER Described by A. R. HOPE MONCRIEFF

=Bonnie Scotland=

75 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

Painted by WILFRID BALL, R. E.

=Sussex=

75 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

Painted by MORTIMER MENPES, R. I. Text by G. E. MITTON

=The Thames=

75 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

Painted and Described by A. HENRY SAVAGE LANDOR

=Tibet and Nepal=

75 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS (50 IN COLOUR)

By MORTIMER MENPES, R. I. Text by DOROTHY MENPES

=Venice=

100 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

Painted by ROBERT FOWLER, R. I. Described by EDWARD THOMAS

=Beautiful Wales=

75 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

By MORTIMER MENPES, R. I. Text by DOROTHY MENPES

=War Impressions=

99 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

By CAPTAIN S. E. ST. LEGER

=War Sketches in Colour=

165 ILLUSTRATIONS (50 IN COLOUR)

Painted by WALTER TYNDALE Described by CLIVE HOLLAND

=Wessex=

75 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

Painted by A. S. FORREST Described by JOHN HENDERSON

=The West Indies=

74 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

By MORTIMER MENPES, R. I. Text by DOROTHY MENPES

=World’s Children=

100 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

By MORTIMER MENPES, R. I. Text by DOROTHY MENPES

=World Pictures=

500 ILLUSTRATIONS (50 IN COLOUR)

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Painted by WILLIAM SMITH, Jun. Described by A. R. HOPE MONCRIEFF

=The Highlands and Islands of Scotland=

40 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

Painted by A. FORESTIER Described by G. W. T. OMOND

=Bruges And West Flanders=

37 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

Painted by NICO JUNGMAN Described by G. E. MITTON

=Normandy=

40 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

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Painted by WILLIAM SMITH, Jun. Described by REV. W. S. CROCKETT

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20 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

By C. LEWIS HIND

=Adventures among Pictures=

24 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS (8 IN COLOUR AND 16 IN BLACK AND WHITE)

By GERTRUDE DEMAIN HAMMOND, R.I.

=The Beautiful Birthday Book=

12 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR DECORATIVE BORDERS BY A. A. TURBAYNE

Painted by JOHN FULLEYLOVE, R.I. Text by ROSALINE MASSON

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21 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

Painted and Described by DION CLAYTON CALTHROP

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