Highways and byways in Surrey . y withgeraniums, see-saws and swings, runs a tiny stream, ripplingdown to the Mole. Unlike the Wey, the Mole runs by few churches. Onlyfive, Horley, Betchworth, Leatherhead, Stoke DAbernon, andCobham, stand near the the river, and only Stoke DAbernonactually on its banks. Stoke DAbernon, too, has the bestview from the churchyard across the stream, over a broad XXVII OLD HOUSES AT COHHAM 293 Stretch of grassland on which partridges call and rooks stalkmajestically. At Cobhani you can scarcely see the Mole whenyou are in the village, but there are few i)rettier gl
Highways and byways in Surrey . y withgeraniums, see-saws and swings, runs a tiny stream, ripplingdown to the Mole. Unlike the Wey, the Mole runs by few churches. Onlyfive, Horley, Betchworth, Leatherhead, Stoke DAbernon, andCobham, stand near the the river, and only Stoke DAbernonactually on its banks. Stoke DAbernon, too, has the bestview from the churchyard across the stream, over a broad XXVII OLD HOUSES AT COHHAM 293 Stretch of grassland on which partridges call and rooks stalkmajestically. At Cobhani you can scarcely see the Mole whenyou are in the village, but there are few i)rettier glimpses of itsstream than the brimming pool by the road outside. A greymill stands in the stream, double-wheeled and doubly silent;swans oar themselves leisurely about the eddies, and themeadow beyond in May is a sheet of kingcups. Ye Old Church Stile House, Cobham, 1432, restored 1635,is the engaging legend painted on a low-roofed timbered housewhich stands at the churchyard gate, ^^ith its square beams, > ^«k-^ -=^- ^,^A--. Ve Old Church Stile House, Cobhavt, 1432, restored 1635. its latticed windows and red curtains, it is a model of what a Home of Rest for Gentlewomen —which is its vocation—should be. Cobham has one or two other good houses,Georgian, red and solid, but the best perhaps is the old WhiteLion posting inn at Cobham Street, half a mile away on thePortsmouth Road. The White Lion stood by the fourth toll-house on the highway from London, and its oak-panelledparlours have entertained travellers for four centuries or more— 294 A GARDENER AND A POET chap. none thirstier, perhaps, than Liberty Wilkes, who passedthat way on a day in 1794, and drank a large bowl oflemonade. Pains Hill, which rises above the Mole a little further onthe road, is a name associated with a gardener and a gardener was Charles Hamilton, who burdened his lawnswith such an astonishing variety of temples, chapels, grottos,castles, cascades and ruins—including a hermitage
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