ON RIGHT FROM LOND.

Worth.

Sholden Lodge.

From Deal to Dover, by coach, 8 miles, passing through Walmer and Ringswould.

ON RIGHT FROM LOND.

VI. LONDON TO TUNBRIDGE WELLS, BY RAILWAY, 46 Miles.

Walmer Castle.

5

From London Br. to
Tunbridge (p. 9).

41

Mabledon Park, J. Dea

Summerhill.

con, Esq.

Bidborough.

Southborough Bounds.

Great Lodge.
Pembury.

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. Pop. (1851) 10,587. 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 hop plantations, and the town is surrounded by gardens and orchards. Maidstone has an extensive and flourishing trade in hops, grain, fruit, stone, &c. The paper

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 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.

Folkestone was at one time a flourishing place, but is now much decayed. It has, however, greatly increased in importance since the opening of the SouthEastern Railway, the directors of which have made it a principal station for communication with France. Swift steam-packets pass daily, and often twice a-day, between Folkestone and Boulogne (a direct distance of 30 miles), accomplishing the voyage 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 of this place, and left a sum of money, with which a school has been founded and endowed. Pop. of parish, 1851, 6726. VIII. LONDON TO MAIDSTONE, BY RAILWAY, 56 Miles.

ON RIGHT FROM LOND.

65 Miles.

Well.

60

Brockley.

Lewisham Bridge.

5

Lee.

Horn Park.

To Greenwich, 2 miles.
Burnt Ash Grove.

Plaistow Hall.

Camden Pl. Marq. Cam

9 den.

Bromley House.

Chiselhurst.

Leesons, Lord Wynford 5 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.