mills employ upwards of 300 hands. The Archbishop's Palace is a Gothic structure, rebuilt about the middle of the fourteenth century. It has undergone considerable alterations since that period, but is still a pleasant and convenient residence. Among the other buildings worthy of notice are, the County Hall, County Gaol, Chapel of Newark Hospital, All Saints Church, and a very ancient stone bridge. The town contains a grammar school, a proprietary school, 4 charity schools, 19 alms-houses, and 9 Dissenting meeting-houses. The county gaol was erected in 1818, on the improved radiating plan, at an expense of £200,000. Maidstone has returned two members of Parliament since the reign of Edward VI. It formerly contained a college, founded by Arclibishop Courtenay in the reign of Richard II.; but it was suppressed by Edward VI. Population in 1851, 20,801. About 1 miles north-east of the town is Pennenden Heath, where the county meetings have been held from a period prior to the Conquest. Roads lead from Maidstone to Hythe, Folkestone, and Dover, Canterbury, Rochester, Tenterden, and Romney, Tunbridge and Tunbridge Wells, and to Westerham. It is now connected with the metropolis by two railways. 14 LONDON.-MAIDSTONE.-HYTHE AND FOLKESTONE—Continued. Folkestone was at one time a flourishing place, and is again rising into in portance. It has greatly increased since the opening of the South-Easter Railway, the directors of which have made it a principal station for commun cation with France. Swift steam-packets pass daily, and often twice a da between Folkestone and Boulogne (a direct distance of 29 miles), accomplis ing the voyage in two hours. The harbour has been greatly extended ar improved, and numerous modern buildings erected for the accommodation visitors, by whom it is resorted to during the summer months. The surroun ing country is very beautiful. Dr. William Harvey, the discoverer of the ci culation of the blood, was a native, and left a sum of money, with which school has been endowed. Customs dues collected in 1857, £135,381. Pop. parish, 1851, 6726. VIII. LONDON TO MAIDSTONE, BY RAILWAY, 43 Miles. 65 Miles. Bromley derives its name from the quantity of broom with which it was formerly surrounded. It is pleasantly situated on the Ravensbourn, and possesses a spring whose waters afford great relief in a variety of infirmities, from the chalybeate with which they are impregnated. The church contains a monument to the memory of Dr Hawkesworth, (the author of the Adventurer,) and the tomb of the wife of Dr Johnson. Bishop Warner, in 1666, here founded a college for 20 clergymen's widows. Population in 1851, 4127. 16 LONDON. SEVENOAKS.-TUNBRIDGE AND WINCHELSEA-Continued. Montreal Pl. Earl Amherst. This seat received! its name from the 1st Lord Amherst, in memory of his success in the reduction of Montreal, in Canada. To Westerham, 4 m. Keppington, Col. T. Aus ten. Ash Grove. Belle Vue. Panthurst. Foxbush. Meopham 41 24 SEVENOAKS is a pleasant town, and derives its name from seven oak-trees which formerly occupied the height on which it is built. The church is an elegant building, and, from its commanding situation, is a conspicuous object. The town has a Grammar-School, and al large range of alms-houses, instituted by Sir William de Sevenoke, a foundling, brought up by some charitable persons in the town from which he received his name. Population of parish, 1851, 2187. Knowle Park (Earl Am-1 herst), formerly the seat of the Sackvilles, Dukes of Dorset, whose title is now extinct. This magnificent mansion covers upwards of five acres of ground, and furnishes specimens of the architecture of a variety of ages,-the most ancient being as old as the Mareschels and Bigods, the most modern being the erection of Thomas, first Earl of Dorset, in the reign of James I. It has an invaluable collection of pictures and antique busts. The park contains herds of fine deer, a variety of excellent timber, and covers Jan extent of five or six miles in circumference. Rumsted. Horn's Lodge. Enter Sussex. cr. River Teise. Court Lodge. Scotney Castle, an an-i Stone Crouch, (Kent). 43 cient seat situated in a deep vale on the banks of the Beulth. and Eridge Castle, Earl of Abergavenny. Bedgebury Park. To Battle, 12 miles. Elfords. Oakfield Lodge. Lillesden. To Battle, 11 miles. X. LONDON TO HASTINGS, 634 Miles. Winchelsea Castle. 63 65 |