Highways and byways in Surrey . ast, possibly, is the heroine of the BroomSquire, Witley has perhaps been a little overshadowed by the tragedyof a late owner of I^ea Jark. I have heard descriptions of thenew features of Lea Jark, the lakes and fountains and abilliard-room, I believe, under water, but^I have not seenthem. Before Hindhead drew authors and artists up the hill,AVitley had its own settlement of workers living deep in Surreycountry. George Eliot was at Witley Heights ; J. C. Hook,who could not bear to be watched while he was painting,sketched Witley gorse and heather ; Birket Foster
Highways and byways in Surrey . ast, possibly, is the heroine of the BroomSquire, Witley has perhaps been a little overshadowed by the tragedyof a late owner of I^ea Jark. I have heard descriptions of thenew features of Lea Jark, the lakes and fountains and abilliard-room, I believe, under water, but^I have not seenthem. Before Hindhead drew authors and artists up the hill,AVitley had its own settlement of workers living deep in Surreycountry. George Eliot was at Witley Heights ; J. C. Hook,who could not bear to be watched while he was painting,sketched Witley gorse and heather ; Birket Foster long livedamong the Witley pines ; and Mrs. Allingham, who was atSandhills, a house near by, has painted few more interestingpictures than her Lessons, Fat-a-cake, and The Childrens Tea. 162 CHILDREN AND APPLE-BLOSSOM At Witley she painted most oi her studies of children indoors,in the nursery and tlie schoolroom ; after she left Witley, sheliked to set her cottage girls and boys among bluebells and apple-blossom out of A corner in the Wliife Hart, Witley, k-noivn as George Eliots corner,, CHAPTER XIV THE FOLD COUNTRY The Wild Garden of Surrey.—Birds and their valentines. —Nightingales atDunsfold.—Alfold Stocks.—Three yews in a line.—The Kings Evil.—Alfold industries.—A dry canal. —Chiddingfold.—Red brick andMadonna lilies.—The Enticknaps. —Hungry scholars.—The CrownInn.—On Highdown Ball.—A green ride in the woods.—The Chid-dingfold Foxhounds. The Fold Country is the wild garden of the Surrey weald,and the month to walk in it is May. Alfold, Ifold, Durfold,Dunsfold, Chiddingfold, and other folds lie among oakwoodsand ploughlands that once were oakwoods ; the railway runsnowhere nearer than seven miles from the heart of the woods,and in the woods the timbered cottages stand apart, old andtranquil. To me, the associations of the Fold Country centreround the memory of a First of May hotter and more gloriouswith flowers than any I can remember
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