. The Old Road . son why it should not havefollowed its otherwise invariable rule of taking the southerlyslope, and it could have chosen the dry clean air of the heathand kept all the way near the fresh water of the the other hand, there is no doubt whatever of its , the existence of modern tracks, and more importantstill, the direction of the road after it leaves St. Marthaschapel, all point to the same conclusion. The Pilgrims Waycrosses diagonally the field beyond the main road, goes justbehind the little cottage at its corner,^ and then makes forAlbury P
. The Old Road . son why it should not havefollowed its otherwise invariable rule of taking the southerlyslope, and it could have chosen the dry clean air of the heathand kept all the way near the fresh water of the the other hand, there is no doubt whatever of its , the existence of modern tracks, and more importantstill, the direction of the road after it leaves St. Marthaschapel, all point to the same conclusion. The Pilgrims Waycrosses diagonally the field beyond the main road, goes justbehind the little cottage at its corner,^ and then makes forAlbury Park by way of a wretched and difficult sunken lane tothe north of Weston Wood. We entered this neglected andmarshy way. It was a place of close, dark, and various trees, The field is unnumbered in the 25-inch Ordnance, but the diagonal can be given asgoing to the NW. corner of the two-acre plot and cottage, marked 121 in thej-Jijfl map for Surrey (xxxii. 1), and forming a detached part of the parish of Shere. lOO. oo P Pi ° M 2 o Q OF THE ROAD full of a damp air, and gloomy with standing water in the ruts :the whole an accident differing in tone from all that we knew ofthe road, before and after. It was not long in passing. We left the undergrowth forthe open of a field, and found the trace of the road pointing tothe wall of Albury Park. It entered just north of the newchurch, and then followed a clearly marked ridge upon which,here and there, stood the yews. After the Old Road enters Albury Park there is a doubtfulsection of about a mile and a half. The 2 5-inch Ordnance forSurrey (revised eight years ago) carries the track southward ata sharp angle, round the old church of St. Peter and Paul andthen along the south of Shere till it stops suddenly at a farmcalled Gravel Pits Farm. It seemed to us as we overlookedthe valley from the north, that the Old Road followed a coursenow included in the garden of Albury, and corresponding,perhaps, to the Yew Walk which Cobbett has rende
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