Coaching days and coaching ways . Guildford Town Hall. Courtyard of the Crown, Guildford. cricket, its old inn, the Talbot, full of gables, long corri-dors, and hoary memories of gastronomic feats, performedby cramped travellers in the twinkling of an eye to the 166 COACIIINCx DAYS AND COACHING WAYS accompaniment of the guards horn, relentlessly pro-claiming imminent departure. And from Ripley it is arun of six miles into Guildford, which is twenty-ninemiles seven furlongs from the Stones End in the Borough,the capital of Surrey, a most picturesque town, and a. Fireplace in Abbots Hospital. go
Coaching days and coaching ways . Guildford Town Hall. Courtyard of the Crown, Guildford. cricket, its old inn, the Talbot, full of gables, long corri-dors, and hoary memories of gastronomic feats, performedby cramped travellers in the twinkling of an eye to the 166 COACIIINCx DAYS AND COACHING WAYS accompaniment of the guards horn, relentlessly pro-claiming imminent departure. And from Ripley it is arun of six miles into Guildford, which is twenty-ninemiles seven furlongs from the Stones End in the Borough,the capital of Surrey, a most picturesque town, and a. Fireplace in Abbots Hospital. good place to dine at after rambling about lost on aCommon, as Mr. Pepys in 1668 found. The inns of Guildford were in the coaching days theCrown and the White Hart, when the constant throb oftraffic on the direct Portsmouth Road must have kept thenow sleep}- old place from ever even nodding ; but thereis not much throb of traffic about the High Street now ;and Guildford sleeps on its past according to the present THE PORTSMOUTH ROAD 167 comfortable practice of most provincial towns, most ofthem equally suggestive of laudanum, mandragora,poppies, hop-pillows, and other sedatives ; few of them
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