Highways and byways in Surrey . atthe inns. You can trace the old road clearly through Scale toPuttenham, where it must have travelled south of the churchdoor, instead of taking the awkward and unnecessary turnto the north which is taken by the modern road. Then atPuttenham the pilgrims would divide again. Some wouldjourney straight on across Puttenham Heath, heading towardsSt. Catherines Hill—you can see the rough track; otherswould turn aside to the south-east, to visit Compton church ;perhaps they would come down into Compton as you maycome down into it from the east to-day, by what is evid
Highways and byways in Surrey . atthe inns. You can trace the old road clearly through Scale toPuttenham, where it must have travelled south of the churchdoor, instead of taking the awkward and unnecessary turnto the north which is taken by the modern road. Then atPuttenham the pilgrims would divide again. Some wouldjourney straight on across Puttenham Heath, heading towardsSt. Catherines Hill—you can see the rough track; otherswould turn aside to the south-east, to visit Compton church ;perhaps they would come down into Compton as you maycome down into it from the east to-day, by what is evidentlyan old track cut deep in the woods. They would go up north A PARSONS 1KOIITS again from Compton ; perhaps they would be tired of thevalley, and would climb the Hogs Back to walk the lastmile or so into Guildford in the wind ; perhaps they wouldjoin the other stream of pilgrims travelling by the sandy laneby which you may walk to day as slowly as they did towardsSt. Catherines Hill. Most of them, I think, would collect on. Coiiiine in to riilfenJtaii St. Catherines Hill; St. Catherines was more popular thanthe Guildford churches. So General James has discovered,examining ancient records of litigation. The parson of , Guildford, fearing to lose his profit from the pilgrimswho visited the town, purchased from the lord of the manorthe freehold of the site of the chapel, and rebuilt it in the attraction of St. Catherines was that it was on the I CHILDREN WITH CUCKOO-FLOWERS 9 way to Shalford Fair. Guildford had two special fairs, onMay 4 and November 22, to catch the summer and the winterpilgrims. But Shalford Fair was the great fair, and actuallycovered 140 acres of ground. The pilgrims would cross the Wey under St. CatherinesHill by a ferry or a rough plank bridge. The merchantstravelling with their horses, and the ponies driven fromWeyhill Fair out towards Salisbury Plain, would come throughthe water by a ford. But the ferry and the bridge were both
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