The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . f ()xne\-, a Hat so easilv Hooded that the villagers witliin its bounds often(in bridge, then conie^ Wye at a distance of two miles, set upim a hill so that it cannut be hid, is tinold-worhl borough of Wiiichelsea, which the sea has left high and dry, though ith;id iieen the abode of great kiiifjs, and the witness of battles liy sea ;ind land. .\tHastings the 1 )o\vns supply suHicient rivalet-ijowei- to maiidain glen, watirfall, anddripping-- well, for sea-sidi- visitors. Follo
The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . f ()xne\-, a Hat so easilv Hooded that the villagers witliin its bounds often(in bridge, then conie^ Wye at a distance of two miles, set upim a hill so that it cannut be hid, is tinold-worhl borough of Wiiichelsea, which the sea has left high and dry, though ith;id iieen the abode of great kiiifjs, and the witness of battles liy sea ;ind land. .\tHastings the 1 )o\vns supply suHicient rivalet-ijowei- to maiidain glen, watirfall, anddripping-- well, for sea-sidi- visitors. Following the coast-line to Seaford, the (|uietand un])retr-nding- watei-ing- jjlace which was once a (in(pa, Port, and wliich icturncd The Cvckmere.] THE CATHEDSAL OF THE SOUTH DOWNS. members to Parliament until it was disfrancliised by the Reform Act, a sliort walkover the Downs brings the tomist to the pretty broken country of East and WestDean. The stream crossed by Exceat Bridge is the Cuckmere, of which it need only. f7io(o; F. i:. 0. Sluail, SoitlhuMpioa. SOUTHAMPTON DOCKS {p. 19). be said that it has ceased to be a feature of importance to shipping people. It isworth while, nevertlieless, to follow it up from the reaches where barges still tindresting-place. At Alfriston British, Koman, and Saxon coins have been found;there is a rare sixteenth-century inn, supposed to have been built as a house ofcall for Canterbury pilgrims, a market cross, a clnuch on the plan of a Greekcross, sometimes designated the cathedral of the South Downs, a parish registerdating from 1512—possibly the oldest in England—and a half-timbered rectory ofstill earlier date. There is some doubt as to which is now the smallest church in 10 BIVERS OF GREAT BJIITAIX. [The Sissex Oise. Great liritaiu. but tlu claim has l)con niatlo for Lullinutun. wliiili is on tlio slope ofCuckmere vale. In rambling- by this little river the tourist will make acquaintancewith the South Downs free and unadulterated. The
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