Paterson's Guide Book to England and Wales. With maps and plans ... 1886, etc

Front matter

LONDON. MIDLAND GRAND HOTEL, ST PANCRAS STATION, N.W, WILLIAM TOWLE, Manager. Close to Euston and King's Cross. Tariff sent on application. NO CHARGE FOR ATTENDANCE. Telegrams — MIDOTEL, London. The MIDLAND GRAND is exceptionly healthy, being situate in the most healthy part of London, away from the River fogs, and having a large free area all round it. The MIDLAND GRAND, designed by the late Sir Gilbert Scott, has spendid Public Rooms, wide Corridors, every improvement, luxury and home comfort. The MIDLAND GRAND forms the Terminus of the Midland Railway, from whence Express Trains depart for Scotland, Manchester, Liverpool, and all principal manufacturing towns. The MIDLAND GRAND is much the cheapest First-Class Hotel in London, and the charges for Attendance and Gas have been abolished. loo Rooms at 3s. 3s. 6d., and 4s. per day inclusive.

Board, Apartments, &c, 10s. 6d. per day for the Winter. The MIDLAND GRAND has Passenger Elevators, Electric Light, Telegraph, Telephone to Threates and business centres. Special service of comfortable Broughams at very low fares. Table d'Hote open to non residents. The Midland Omnibuses will meet families coming to the Midland Grand Hotel. VERY CONVENIENT FOR CITY AND WEST END'. A D VER TISEMENTS. EDINBURGH. GRIEVE'S BALMORAL HOTEL, 91 PRINCES STREET. This First-Class Hotel, in the principal Thoroughfare, overlooking the Public Gardens, and opposite the Castle, commands the Finest Views of Edinburgh. Luxuriously Furnished. Prices Moderate. Patronized by the Royal Family, Nobility, Gentry, and First Citizens of America. GRIEVE'S WATERLOO HOTEL, WATERLOO PLACE, At the base ofthe Calton Hill, which commands one of the grandest Panoramic Views in the World.

Most centrally located, comfortably furnished, prices moderate. The Dining Hall is the finest in GreaL Britain. J. GRIEVE, Proprietor and Manager. AD VERTISEMENTS. THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY OF ENGLAND, Issue Tickets between Liverpool, and Birkenhead, and London, via Chester, by three routes, viz. : 1. THE KOYAL (OXFOED) EOUTE from Birkenhead, through Chester, the Vale of Gresford, passing the Vale of Llangollen, through Shrewsbury, Birmingham, War wick, Leamington (for Stratford-on-Avon, Kenilworth, and Coventry), Woodstock (for Blenheim), Oxford, Reading, and Slough (for Windsor) — the Route taken by Her Majesty the Queen in travelling between Balmoral and Windsor. 2. THE WOECESTEE EOUTE from Birkenhead and Chester to Shrewsbury (as above) and thence through the Severn Valley, Worcester, Evesham, Honeybourne (nine miles from and within about twenty minutes of Stratford-on- Avon), Oxford, Reading, and Slough (for Windsor). 3.

Preface

. SSfSftjSS^ preparation of this Guide Book, tho Author has TSa y$ BOU8fat *° &ve within the limits of an easily portable £gSL*» v°lume the information necessary to enable the traveller to conveniently and intelligently visit all places of importance in England and Wales, and with this object the routes have been arranged as much as possible on the main lines of railway, though outlying districts have by no means been neglected. In all the principal towns the various points of in terest have been described in the order in which they can be most conveniently visited. In order to insure accuracy, the de scriptions of such towns or districts' as the author has not had an opportunity of personally visiting have been submitted for revision to a resident, and he takes this opportunity of conveying his grate ful acknowledgments to those friends who have so kindly assisted him in this manner.

Thanks are also due to the officials of the various railway companies, who have furnished much valuable information regarding fares and distances. As, however, even with the greatest care, it is almost impossible in a work of this character to be absolutely free from error, the author will feel grateful to travellers who may convey to him, through his publishers, a note of any errors or omissions they may notice. Special care has been taken with regard to the recommendations of hotels or other establishments, which have been solely guided by the reputation they have for fair dealing and attention to travellers. Any well authenticated complaint of overcharge or incivility will cause them to be struck out of both the text and advertising pages ; and no advertisement of any establishment will be inserted, except of such as are personally known to the author to be worthy of patronage. The Guide will be carefully revised annually. JOHN MERRYLEES. Edinburgh, June 1885. All rights reserved. CONTENTS. ENGLAND.

Part I

Page London- - Introductory Information ...... 1 History .......... 16 Trafalgar Square, Charing Cross, and Westminster . 18 Lambeth 28 Strand, Fleet Street, and St Paul's Cathedral . . 29 The City, Cheapside, Mansion House, Tower of London 38 East End of London 49 South wark 50 Pall Mall, Piccadilly 50 Regent Street, Oxford Street, British Museum . . 53 Kensington, Albert Hall, South Kensington Museum . 59 St James' Park ........ 61 Green Park ......... 63 Hyde Park . - 63 Kensington Gardens 64 Regent's Park ........ 65 The Thames, from London Bridge to Hampton Court . 66 The Thames, from London Bridge to Woolwich . 69 The Crystal Palace 72 Dulwich College 73 Kew, Richmond, and Hampton Court .... 74 Epping Forest, Chingford 76 Route 1. London to Windsor and Stoke Pogis .... 77 2. London to Virginia Water, Ascot, and Reading . 83 3.

Oxford to Teddington by the Thames .... 84 4. London to Reading, Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Plymouth, and Penzance ........ 91 5. Reading to Bath by Devizes 110 6. London to Wells and Glastonbury . .... 112 7. Bristol to Cheddar, Wells, and Glastonbury . . . 119 8. Taunton to Dunster, Minehead, Lynton, and Lynmouth 120 9. Taunton to Barnstaple and Ilfracombe .... 121 10. Exeter to Barnstaple and Ilfracombe .... 124 11. Exeter to Launceston and Tintagel .... CONTENTS. Route Tage 12. London to Salisbury, Yeovil, and Exeter . . . 127 13. London to Winchester and Southampton by Basingstoke 137 14. London to Winchester and Southampton by Farnham . 140 15. Southampton to Bournemouth, Dorchester, and Weymouth .....-•■■ jj*7 16. London to Guilford and Portsmouth . . • 150 17. London to Chichester by Horsham and Ford ... 153 18.

The Isle of Wight 155 19. London to Brighton 162 20. London to Brighton and Worthing by Dorking . . 164 21. Brighton to Chichester and Portsmouth .... 165 22. London to Newhaven and Eastbourne .... 167 23. London to Tunbridge, Tunbridge Wells, and Hastings . 169 24. London to Canterbury and Dover 171 25. London to Folkestone and Dover 184 26. London to Gravesend, Rochester, and Chatham . . 185 27. London to Maidstone ....... 187 28. London to Margate and Ramsgate .... 187 29. London to Cambridge, Ely, Lynn, and Hunstanton . 189 30. London to Colchester, Ipswich, and Norwich . . 207 31. London to Lowestoft and Yarmouth .... 215 32. Cambridge to Newmarket and Bury St Edmunds . 217 33. Ely to Thetford and Norwich 218 34. Norwich to East Dereham, Walsingham, Wells, and Hunstanton ........ 219 35. London to Tilbury and Southend ..... 221