ON RIGHT FROM LOND. Worth. Sholden Lodge. From Deal to Dover, by coach, 8 miles, passing through Walmer and Ringswould. PN RIGHT FROM LOND. 9 From London Br. to cr. riv. Stour, and SANDWICH (p. 5). To Ramsgate, by 102 Deal Castle. VI. LONDON TO TUNBRIDGE WELLS, BY RAILWAY, 46 Miles. Walmer Castle. 5 From London Br. to 41 Mabledon Park, J. Dea Summerhill. con, Esq. Bidborough. Southborough Bounds. Great Lodge. Nonsuch Green. ON LEFT FROM LOND. TUNBRIDGE WELLS. 46 Tunbridge Wells is a celebrated watering-place upon the borders of Kent and Sussex. The chalybeate spring, to which the town owes its origin, was first noticed in the reign of James I., by Dudley, Lord North. The town has much increased of late years, and contains all the usual requisites of a watering-place. It is celebrated for the salubrity of its air, and the neighbourhood is extremely picturesque and beautiful. Population 24,000, Excursions may be made to Penshurst, (Lord De Lisle and Dudley), 5 m. distant; Bridge Castle, 2 m. distant; Hever Castle, 7 m. distant; Bayham Abbey (Marquis Camden), 6 m. distant, the ruins of which are extremely picturesque. There is a modern mansion in the Gothic style. Two miles beyond Tunbridge Wells is Eridge Castle, the seat of the Earl of Abergavenny. Maidstone, the county town of Kent, is situated on a pleasant declivity, chiefly on the right bank of the Medway. In the vicinity are very extensive nop plantations, and the town is surrounded by gardens and orchards. Maidstone has an extensive and flourishing trade in hops, grain, fruit, stone, &c. The parer. LONDON.-MAIDSTONE.-HYTHE AND FOLKESTONE.-Continued. 13 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 Archbishop Courtenay in the reign of Richard II.; but it was suppressed by Edward VI. Population, 29,638. About 13 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. Leeds Castle (C. W. 301 Martin, Esq.) a fine old 28 mansion, surrounded by a moat, situated in a wild park. Leeds village has an air of remote antiquity; and farther to the right East Sutton Place, Sir E. Filmer, Bart, and Ulcombe Ho. Opposite Lenham, Chilstone House, G. Douglas, Esq.; Calehill Pk, H.Darell, Esq.; and fur- 22 Charing on the left. 47 Hothfield Place, Sir 19 Hothfield Common. 501 R. Tufton, Bart. Goddinton, Rev. N. Otterden. To Faversham 104 m. At a distance, Eastwell Park, Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham. To Faversham 14 m Mersham Hatch, Sir N. J. Knatchbull, Bart. At a distance Evington, Sir Courtenay Ho60 nywood, Bart. Monks-Holton. Folkestone was at an early period a place of note, but it is only recently that it has risen into importance. It has greatly increased since the directors of the South-Eastern Railway have made it a principal station for communi⚫ cation with France. Swift steam-packets pass daily, and often twice a day between Folkestone and Boulogne (a direct distance of 29 miles), the voyage being accomplished in two hours. The harbour has been greatly extended and improved, and numerous modern buildings erected for the accommodation of visitors, by whom it is resorted to during the summer months. The surrounding country is very beautiful. Dr. William Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood, was a native, and left a sum of money, with which a school has been endowed. Customs dues collected in 1857, £135,381. Pop. 18,887 VIII. LONDON TO MAIDSTONE, BY RAILWAY, 43 Miles. IX.-LONDON, SEVENOAKS, TUNBRIDGE, RYE AND WINCHELSEA. 15 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, 5505. |