Highways and byways in Surrey . ways to be able to do from a centre. Besides, toreturn to Hindhead is to end with a steep hill to climb;coming back to Haslemere, you can either drop down the hillfrom Hindhead, or the railway will carry you uphill to the littletown from Milford or \\itley down the line. It is really uphill, for Haslemere lies higher than any townin the south of England—or is said to do so; I have notmeasured them all. I think Tatsfield and Woldingham in theeast of the county lie higher; but they are villages, not towns. 39 140 SIX HUNDRED FEET UP Haslemere is between five and s
Highways and byways in Surrey . ways to be able to do from a centre. Besides, toreturn to Hindhead is to end with a steep hill to climb;coming back to Haslemere, you can either drop down the hillfrom Hindhead, or the railway will carry you uphill to the littletown from Milford or \\itley down the line. It is really uphill, for Haslemere lies higher than any townin the south of England—or is said to do so; I have notmeasured them all. I think Tatsfield and Woldingham in theeast of the county lie higher; but they are villages, not towns. 39 140 SIX HUNDRED FEET UP Haslemere is between five and six hundred feet above sea level;as high as Newlands Corner and nearly three times the heightof St. Georges or St. Annes Hill. If Hindhead were slicedaway, Haslemeres view to the north would be superb. Haslemere has strayed higher and higher on the slopesabove the old town. The core lies round a broad street inwhich the White Horse faces the Swan, and the town hallstands between them, a rather dull little building, in the ^^^^. r^ JCi^ &-«.-•>*— Haslemere. middle of the road. The town has kept less of the pastthan Farnham ; perhaps it had less to keep; but it has somegood red seventeenth-century houses, weather-tiled gables, andtall brick chimneys. Toadflax and arabis climb over the oldgarden walls : one little house looks as if its walls were heldtogether by coils of wistaria. In another, a square, com-fortable building with an elaborate doorway, lived the water- XII A COMPREHENSIVE MUS?:UM 141 colour painter and wood engraver, Josiah Wood Whymper,father of the Whymper whom a later generation knows best asa painter of animals and game birds. The most interesting interior in Haslemere is the was presented to the town by Dr. Jonathan Hutchinson,and teaches history, geology, botany and everything to dowith Haslemeres (and other) birds, beasts, and reptiles. Youmay study the development of the world from the birth oflife perhaps thirty-one million years ago—th
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