The Brighton road : the classic highway to the south . RIGHTONROAD The road to Brighton—the main route, pre-eminentlythe road—is measured from the south side of West-minster Bridge to the Aquarium. It goes by Croydon,Redhill, Horley, Crawley, and Cuckfield, and is (or issupposed to be) 51 \ miles in length. Of this primeroute—the classic wav—there are several longer orshorter variations, of which the way through Clapham,Mitcham, Sutton, and Reigate, to Povey Cross is thechief. The modern record route is the first ofthese two, so far as Hand Cross, where it branchesoff and, instead of going thr
The Brighton road : the classic highway to the south . RIGHTONROAD The road to Brighton—the main route, pre-eminentlythe road—is measured from the south side of West-minster Bridge to the Aquarium. It goes by Croydon,Redhill, Horley, Crawley, and Cuckfield, and is (or issupposed to be) 51 \ miles in length. Of this primeroute—the classic wav—there are several longer orshorter variations, of which the way through Clapham,Mitcham, Sutton, and Reigate, to Povey Cross is thechief. The modern record route is the first ofthese two, so far as Hand Cross, where it branchesoff and, instead of going through Cuckfield, proceedsto Brighton by way of Hickstead and Bolney, avoidingClayton Hill and rejoining the initial route atPyecombe. The oldest road to Brighton is now but little is not to be indicated in few words, but may betaken as the line of road from London Bridge, alongthe Kennington Road, to Brixton, Croydon, GodstoneGreen, Tilburstow Hill, Blindley Heath, East Grinstead,Maresfield. Uckfield, and Lewes ; some fifty-nine miles.
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