Highways and byways in Surrey . WitUy. nothing much besides. There is a good natural centre to thevillage, with four cross roads and an inn, but no doubt Milfordsfuture is to belong to Godalming. A few half-timbered andweather-tiled cottages, which have served as models for newerneighbours, some pollarded elms, a broad smooth road anddusty jasmine—Milford is the first village on the highwayrunning south from Godalming, and on a summer Saturday isless a village than a road. i6o WITLEY COTTAGES One of the four roads wliich branch off from Milford to thesouth runs to Witley. Witley will look more
Highways and byways in Surrey . WitUy. nothing much besides. There is a good natural centre to thevillage, with four cross roads and an inn, but no doubt Milfordsfuture is to belong to Godalming. A few half-timbered andweather-tiled cottages, which have served as models for newerneighbours, some pollarded elms, a broad smooth road anddusty jasmine—Milford is the first village on the highwayrunning south from Godalming, and on a summer Saturday isless a village than a road. i6o WITLEY COTTAGES One of the four roads wliich branch off from Milford to thesouth runs to Witley. Witley will look more trancjuil andmore seasoned fifty years hence. To come into the village irithe gathering dusk of a summer evening, as I saw it first, is an. The White Hart, Witley. enchantment; nothing could throw a quieter spell than thebrick and timber and tar and whitewash of the cottages, theflowers climbing up the old inn, and the familiar noises of aneighbouring game of cricket finishing in half darkness. But XIII SARA nOLNEY i6i only part of Witley will stand the full glare of sunlight. Thenew cottages are finely designed, but they are too black-and-white and painty to group easily with the older, mossierbuildings and the ^^hite Hart Inn, with its nobly ugly sign. The church, bowered in ivy and roses, has some quaintinscriptions. One commemorates a forgotten office :— Off yoi charite pray for the soull° of Thomas Jonys and his wyfe Jane,which Thomas was one of the Sewers of the Chamber to oure Soveraynelorde Kynge Henry VIII. A Sewer of the Chamber waited at the table and broughtwater for the hands of the guests—an office which suggestsan obvious rhyme for poets writing of water-jugs. Anotherepitaph is a shining example of the
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