. The Old Road . th of the crest. The accompanying sketch willexplain the matter. We knew from the researches of others that the road The j^jy Ordnance map of Kent (lv. 10) seems to me to commit a slight error atthis point. There is no need to take the Old Road through the gas works. It obviouslygoes south of the lodge, curls northwards on leaving the park, and is lost in the buildingsnear the smithy. After this it forms the lane which bounds to the north the fieldsmarked 111 and 119. ^ Here again the 25-inch Ordnance for Kent (lv. 10) draws a conventional straightline which seemed to us erron
. The Old Road . th of the crest. The accompanying sketch willexplain the matter. We knew from the researches of others that the road The j^jy Ordnance map of Kent (lv. 10) seems to me to commit a slight error atthis point. There is no need to take the Old Road through the gas works. It obviouslygoes south of the lodge, curls northwards on leaving the park, and is lost in the buildingsnear the smithy. After this it forms the lane which bounds to the north the fieldsmarked 111 and 119. ^ Here again the 25-inch Ordnance for Kent (lv. 10) draws a conventional straightline which seemed to us erroneous. We took it to go from near Brewhouse Farm alongthe raised footpath to Whitehill, and then (lv. 6) under the pit, across fields 13 and 67(not down by Soakham Farm as the map gives it), and so on to the turf where is a raisedembankment and a characteristic line of yews. 153 THE EXPLORATION was certainly to be found again at the spot marked A. Itwas our impression, from a previous study of the map, that zoo ft. Platfbrm of Chi I ham Castle / Old Road Godmersham Ch. ^ Summit of^ Spun Road known,from this point Ravine Road lost here the trail would make straight for this point from the placewhere I was standing (X). But we were wrong. At this pointthe road turned up the hill, its track very deeply marked,lined with trees, and at the top with yews of immenseantiquity. The cause of this diversion was apparent whenwe saw that the straight line I had expected the road tofollow would have taken it across a ravine too shallow forthe contours of the Ordnance map to indicate, but too steepfor even a primitive trail to have negotiated. And this ledme to regret that we had not maps of England such asthey have for parts of Germany, Switzerland, and France,which give three contour-lines to every 100 feet, or one toevery 10 ^^^^^^ B^f^ ^^^^^7^ W ^^ ^^^^^m § B J # ■ ^V^^^^fl^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ~f ^™w^ Is ^■^^^^^^^^m^^ ■ .■% K^^f ^1 J i^^^^^^^^^^&^si i -m ^S^JV ^^^^^^^2^|: i
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