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  Transcriber’s Notes

  Text printed in small capitals in the original work has been
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  SURVEY
  OF
  THE HIGH ROADS
  OF
  England and Wales.

  PART THE FIRST.

  COMPRISING THE COUNTIES OF
  KENT, SURREY, SUSSEX, HANTS, WILTS, DORSET, SOMERSET,
  DEVON, AND CORNWALL;
  WITH
  PART OF BUCKINGHAM AND MIDDLESEX.

  _PLANNED ON A SCALE OF ONE INCH TO A MILE._

  EXHIBITING AT ONE VIEW
  THE SEATS OF THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY,
  WHETHER SITUATED ON, OR CONTIGUOUS TO, THE ROAD.

  The various Branches of Roads and Towns to which they lead.

  TOGETHER WITH
  THE ACTUAL DISTANCE OF THE SAME FROM THE MAIN ROAD, RIVERS, NAVIGABLE
  CANALS, RAILWAYS, TURNPIKE GATES, &c. &c.

  ACCOMPANIED BY
  INDEXES,
  _TOPOGRAPHIC AND DESCRIPTIVE_.

  THE WHOLE
  ENRICHED WITH A VARIETY OF VALUABLE AND ORIGINAL INFORMATION.

  ARRANGED BY, AND UNDER THE DIRECTION OF,
  EDWARD MOGG.

  _LONDON:_
  PUBLISHED BY EDWARD MOGG, No. 51, CHARING CROSS.
  1817.




  TO
  HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS
  THE PRINCE REGENT.


=Sir=,

Your Royal Highness having graciously condescended to extend your august
patronage and protection to this work, I cannot present it to the
public, without testifying how deeply sensible I am of this most
gracious mark of your Royal Highness’s approbation.

I am perfectly aware that no merit of the performance can give it
pretensions to so exalted a patronage; yet to whom can this publication
with so much propriety be addressed, as to that illustrious and
magnanimous Prince, who, by his wisdom and councils, during the most
arduous contest in which any nation was ever engaged, preserved us in
the quiet enjoyment of that land, and, under whose auspicious guidance
and government, has been raised to the highest pinnacle of glory that
country, the topography and picturesque beauties of which it is the
principal design of the following pages to illustrate.

That your Royal Highness may long live to be the ornament of society,
the delight and boast of a grateful and admiring nation, is the ardent
wish of,

  Sir,

  Your Royal Highness’s

  most grateful,

  most dutiful,

  and most devoted servant,

  EDWARD MOGG.




ADVERTISEMENT.


In presenting to the Public the first part of this comprehensive work,
embracing the southern division of the Kingdom, the Proprietor indulges
a hope, that while conveying information, he will be found in some
degree to have contributed to the amusement of the traveller.

The gratification derived from an excursion of pleasure does not always
terminate with its performance, but is often produced by reflections
which naturally arise on a subsequent review of past occurrences or
remarkable objects; and which the peculiar construction of this work is
eminently calculated to assist.

In contemplating a new Road, we feel enlivened by anticipation; in the
recollection of an old one, we are led to reflections that equally
interest; and a recurrence to these pages will immediately present to
the reader’s imagination the identical spot, or well known inn, which
from a variety of incidents that occur in the prosecution of a journey,
whether the remembrance be attended with pleasure or accompanied by a
feeling of regret, never fail to leave an indelible impression on the
mind.

It has been justly remarked by an eminent Geographer[1], that the Rivers
of England have never yet been delineated; the same observation may be
applied with equal truth, though still greater regret, with respect to
its Roads, which (on a large scale) yet remain to be illustrated; how
far the present work is likely to succeed in supplying the latter
deficiency, it will remain for the public to decide. It is an object the
Proprietor has long had in contemplation, and has thence been brought to
greater perfection from an attentive observation of circumstances
peculiarly connected with the subject, both in regard to the alteration
of old, and the formation of new Roads, which, by avoiding hills and
shortening distance, will be found to afford such facilities to
trav