Highways and byways in Surrey . allel to the downs, aboveMerstham, to the north. When Mr. Jennings walked intoBletchingley, in his Field Paths and Green Lanes, thepopulation seemed to him at first sight to be made up ofbutchers and beagles. That was more than thirty years ago,but Bletchingley still keeps up its reputation, in regard to the 392 BLETCIIIN(; beagles ; indeed, it has added to its just fame, for the odds arethat, in the summer months at all events, the first animal tocatch your eye in liletchingley will be a foxhound. Thekennels of the Burstow Hunt are at Smallfields, near Horl
Highways and byways in Surrey . allel to the downs, aboveMerstham, to the north. When Mr. Jennings walked intoBletchingley, in his Field Paths and Green Lanes, thepopulation seemed to him at first sight to be made up ofbutchers and beagles. That was more than thirty years ago,but Bletchingley still keeps up its reputation, in regard to the 392 BLETCIIIN(; beagles ; indeed, it has added to its just fame, for the odds arethat, in the summer months at all events, the first animal tocatch your eye in liletchingley will be a foxhound. Thekennels of the Burstow Hunt are at Smallfields, near Horley,but the puppies introduce themselves to other abiding feature of Bletchingley is its cobbled quiet, sunny main street is one of the broadest of all .Surreyvillage roads, and its gutters drain it admirably. It lies betweenlow and comfortable old houses, of which the White Hart isthe chief, as becomes an ancient and notable inn. The WhiteHart when I saw it last was welcoming a couple of foxhounds ;. Old Tiinbcfcd House ncay Dleichingley. another strolled across the road careless of a hooting horn ;another stood in a shopdoor. But of all that belongs to thepast in Bletchingley the best lies away from the main Street is the name of an offshoot of Bletchingley to thenorth, and contains one of the most perfect small timberedhouses in the county—the gatehouse of the old manor. Bletchingley has been given a bad character by vile rotten borough of Bletchingley, he calls it, andadds, from a Godstone inn, that it is happily for Godstoneout of sight. Long before Cobbett the Bletchingley politicianswere in hot water. One of them. Dr. Nathaniel Harris, wasrector of the parish in the early days of the Stuarts, and took XXXVIII ELECTIONEERING 393 his politics with him, as other clergymen have done, into thepulpit. A Mr. Lovell was the candidate he wanted in forBletchingley, and he did his best for a canvass. He preacheda sermon speciall
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