Highways and byways in Surrey . ch cost some ^^24,000, were set uphere in 1885, and are a home for 200 boys. Between Bisley and Chobham runs a road with rather an oddfeature. For a short distance near Chobham village the littleHale Bourne, into which the Windle Brook has here grown,runs beside it, dark and full, but almost invisible under itsoverarching alders and dog-roses. Just as it leaves the roadsideit is joined by a strange companion. Another little stream,coming down from the north, runs into the Hale Bourne aftertravelling the last hundred yards of its course over the wholebreadth of a
Highways and byways in Surrey . ch cost some ^^24,000, were set uphere in 1885, and are a home for 200 boys. Between Bisley and Chobham runs a road with rather an oddfeature. For a short distance near Chobham village the littleHale Bourne, into which the Windle Brook has here grown,runs beside it, dark and full, but almost invisible under itsoverarching alders and dog-roses. Just as it leaves the roadsideit is joined by a strange companion. Another little stream,coming down from the north, runs into the Hale Bourne aftertravelling the last hundred yards of its course over the wholebreadth of a road. The road, which is of gravel, and regularlyused, is hard and level, and the stream turns it into a bed, per-ha[)s eight or nine feet across. The natural course would seemto be to dig the stream a bed of its own by the side of the road ;but local ingenuity has preferred to send the traveller dryshodover a stile through the field at the side of the stream, whichduly proceeds in the Ordnance map down the road it has
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