200 LXXXIV. LONDON TO BIRMINGHAM BY RAILWAY, 112} Miles. From Birmin. 109 1061 104) 101 99 London Terminus, Euston Square. The new entrance hall,! completed in 1849, at a cost of £150,000, is a fine specimen of decorative architecture. The railway passes through a deep excavation to Camden Town Station, the grand depot for the goods and locomotive departments of the company. Primrose Hill Tunnel, 1220 yards long. Kilburn Station. Willesden Station. Sudbury Station. Harrow Station. Harrow on the Hill. It is situated upon one of the loftiest hills in Middlesex, commanding extensive and delightful views. Pop. of parish 1851, 4951. Pinner Station. 961 Bushey Station. 94 Watford Station (Herts) Three-quarters of a mile distant is Watford, a populous and well-built markettown, almost surrounded by the Coln, on which are mills for throwing silk, and making paper. The church contains numerous brasses and tombs of ancient date. From London. 111 131 161 17 21 Boxmoor Station. 24 Recross the Grand Junction. ON LEFT FROM LOND. Kensal Green Cemetery, one of the prettiest resting places near London. Branch to Kensington. Sudbury. Harrow on the Hill, 1 mile, famous for its school and the eminent men, such as Byron and Sir R. Peel, who have been educated there. Cashiobury Park, Earl of Essex, and Grove Park, Earl of Clarendon, containing a collection of pictures, part of that formed by Lord Chancellor Clarendon.* Hunton Bridge. Grand Junction Canal and river Gade. Two Waters, so called from Junction of the Gade with Bulbourn Brook, is famous for its paper-mills. Westbrook Hay, Hon. G. D. Ryder. Gorhambury (Earl of Verulam), and Gades- 841 Berkhampstead St. 28 bridge, Sir A. P. Cooper, To Chesham, 6 miles. To Amersham, 12 m. Bart. See description of the Portraits, by Lady Theresa Lewis, in her "Friends and Contem poraries of Lord Chancellor Clarendon." ON RIGHT FROM LOND. To Dunstable, 11 miles. Three miles distant is, Ashridge Park, the seat of the late Duke of Bridgewater, and afterwards of the late Earl of Bridgewater, occupies the site of an ancient building, formerly a monastery, which, after the Reformation, became the seat of royalty, and was the frequent residence of Queen Elizabeth when Princess. In 1602, it passed to the Lord Chancellor Ellesmere, an ancestor of the Bridgewater family. This fine estate is now held by the Earl of Brownlow. To Ivinghoe, 24 miles; Dunstable, 9 miles. Tring is 14 miles distant from the station. It is a very ancient place, and is supposed to be of Roman origin. It has a fine church with carved roof, and several monuments. Pop. 1851, 3218. Ivinghoe. To Dunstable, 9 miles. Leighton Buzzard is half a mile from the station, and is situated in the northeastern extremity of the county of Bedford, on the banks of the Ouzel. Here is a pentagonal cross of curious architecture. The church is a very old building, containing a font, stone-stalls, &c. The Grand Junction Canal passes close to the town. Pop. of township, 1851, 4465. Seven miles from the station is Woburn, a small but neat town. It is a place of some antiquity, and has been twice destroyed by fire. The church is a venerable building, entirely covered with ivy. It contains several monuments, and an altar-piece by Carlo Maratti. The inhabitants of Woburn are chiefly employed in lace-making. Woburn Abbey, the seat of the Duke of Bedford, is a magnificent quadrangular building, and contains a splendid collection of paintings, statues, busts, &c. The park is 12 miles in circumference, and is well stocked with deer. Battlesden Park, Sir E. H. Page Turner, Bart. Linslade Tunnel, Stoke Hammond, and Great Brickhill Manor, P. D. P.Duncombe, Esq. |