Black's Guide to the South-Eastern Counties of England; Sussex - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861. Excerpt: ... SUSSEX. "Whether the high field on the bushless Pike, Or even a sand-built ridge Of heaped hills that mound the sea, Overblown with murmurs harsh, Or even a lowly cottage whence we see Stretch'd wide and wild the waste enormous marsh" Tennysoit. SUSSEX. ROUTE X.--RYE to LEWES. Winchelsea, 2 m.; Hastings, 11 m.; Bexhill, 2 m; Pevensey, 6 m.; Polegate, 4 m.; Berwick, 4 m.; Glynde, 5 m.; Lewes, 3 m. "Whate'er of beautiful or new, Sublime or dreadful, in earth, sea, or sky, By chance or search, was offer'd to his view, He scann'd with curious and romantic eye. Whate'er of lore tradition could supply From Gothic tale, or song, or fable old, Roused him, still keen to listen and to pry." Beattie. The road from Rye to Winchelsea is one of no peculiar interest. It runs along the edge of the salt marshes, nearly in a line with that branch of the river Rother, which, by its junction with the Channel, forms Rye New Harbour. WINCHELSEA (population, 778)--Inn: the New Inn--retains but few traces of its former importance; yet one may discern the lines of its principal seats--ruins of groined vault and crypt--a fragment of a shattered tower--the ivy-grown remains of an ancient chapel--mute but eloquent witnesses to present decay and bygone prosperity. But of all the impoverished old towns along the coast, Winchelsea, as Mr. Thorne has observed, is the best worth visiting. "It owns itself a wreck, and does not try to get rid of the ruins, and put on an appearance of smartness. The wide space which the town originally covered helps now not u little to increase the reverend air it carries as a ruin. You wander about its outskirts among pleasant byeways, and are startled to come upon some fragment of a chapel or an old house, when you thought yourself a long way beyond the l...