《Field Paths and Green Lanes; Being Country Walks, Chiefly in Surrey and Sussex》是一本圖書，作者是Jennings, Louis John。
基本介紹
- 中文名：Field Paths and Green Lanes; Being Country Walks, Chiefly in Surrey and Sussex
- 作者：Jennings, Louis John
- 出版時間：2012年2月
- 頁數：72 頁
- ISBN：9780217841665
- 定價：22.59 美元
內容簡介
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. TWO OLD CHURCHES. Crowhurst and Etchingham.?The Road to Crowhurst.?The Wild Flowers of Winter.?Modern Houses and Old Ruins.?The Famous Yew Tree.?Californian Trees.?Yews in Churchyards. ?Etehiugham and its Church.?The Village Graves.?Spring Time in Sussex.?A Specimen of "Old Sussex."?"Americanisms."?Burwash, or "Burghersh."?The Parish Clerk and his Ancestors.? The Iron Slab.?A Request for Information.? The Use of a Wife.?A Walk to Kobertsbridge. Crowhuest and Etchingham churches are among the oldest in Sussex, and certainly among the best worth visiting, as "well for the associations connected with them as for the scenery which surrounds them. They are far apart, but anyone who can give a day to each will not call his time misspent. From either the London road at St. Leonard's, or that which runs up by the side of the Assembly rooms, the way to Crowhurst is very simple. A little beyond St. Leonard's Green, there are some pleasant residences on the left. This is called Hollington Park, and a short distance down, a path will be seen running across fields to the left. Take this, and it will bring you on to the main road, near an oak tree, by which a road runs to the left again. If you follow the latter road, it will bringyou by a pleasant walk out upon the Bexhill road, or by fields back to St. Leonard's. The Crowhurst road goes straightforward, and will be found to consist chiefly of hills?not at all a road to be tackled by poor pedestrians. The distance from St. Leonard's is fully six miles. This road is strewn thickly on both sides with wild flowers?by the first week in March, I found the daisy, herb-whort, and wild strawberry in abundance, primroses were so thick as almost to hide the grass, and the lesser celandine shone out brilliantly from its bed of le...
