Highways and byways in Surrey . IVanboroiish Ch:irch. child with engaging confidence told me to look under thebrick for the key, and under a loose brick in the porch Ifound it. It may be lying there to-day. There is little in thechurch itself; but when I saw it there was a fine nest of honey-bees in the roof near the bell that hangs on the wall outside^^ hy do bees so often swarm in churchyards ? Countryvillagers believe that they like the sound of dinning metal ;perhaps they are attracted to a church by Sundays bell. Wanborough sends a rough but pleasant field-road up againto the Hogs Back, w
Highways and byways in Surrey . IVanboroiish Ch:irch. child with engaging confidence told me to look under thebrick for the key, and under a loose brick in the porch Ifound it. It may be lying there to-day. There is little in thechurch itself; but when I saw it there was a fine nest of honey-bees in the roof near the bell that hangs on the wall outside^^ hy do bees so often swarm in churchyards ? Countryvillagers believe that they like the sound of dinning metal ;perhaps they are attracted to a church by Sundays bell. Wanborough sends a rough but pleasant field-road up againto the Hogs Back, which from here runs another four straight 62 THE HOGS BACK miles along the ridge to Guildford. This is certainly thenoblest highway in Surrey, and, perhaps, the most characteristicof the county. You may often travel along it and yet not seethe finest of the view on either side; in the summer, morefrequently than not, the whole countryside north and south ofthe ridge is swimming in a blue haze which dims and muffles. Barn at Wanhoroitgh. the horizon. But there is no other road on which you canwalk so far and see so much broad Surrey country open outmile after mile on either side, and from which jou can watchso many changes of woodland and common and culturedfields, from the green and golden hops about Farnham to thewheat and oats above Scale and Puttenham, and the longpotato drills in the chalk by Wanborough. But the view is V A NOBLE HIGHWAY 63 not the single beauty of the Hogs Back, though to walk highin the wind along open spaces is possible only on a few roadsin the county. The Hogs Back has a treble charm belongingwholly to the roadway itself; its width, its spacious grassyrides on each side of the broad hard riband of metal thatruns white and unswerving east and west, and most graciousof all, its deep and exuberant hedges. All along the roadin a light wind you will get the scent of bed-straw andthyme and clover from the green border of the road, andin the short down grass
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