Cycle Rides Round London

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Charles G. Harper. Cycle Rides Round London

Cycle Rides Round London

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PREFACE

CHENIES AND THE MILTON COUNTRY

SURBITON TO LEATHERHEAD

IGHTHAM MOTE AND THE VALE OF MEDWAY

THE DARENTH AND THE CRAYS

CROYDON TO KNOCKHOLT BEECHES AND THE KENTISH COMMONS

IN OLD-WORLD ESSEX

AMONG THE ESSEX HILLS

ABINGER, LEITH HILL, AND DORKING

RIPLEY AND THE SURREY COMMONS

RURAL MIDDLESEX

UNDER THE NORTH DOWNS

THE SUBURBAN THAMES

THE SOUTHERN SUBURBS: KINGSTON TO EWELL, WARLINGHAM, AND CROYDON

EWELL TO MERSTHAM, GODSTONE, AND LINGFIELD

HEVER CASTLE, PENSHURST, AND TONBRIDGE

TO STOKE POGES AND BURNHAM BEECHES

DARTFORD TO ROCHESTER, AYLESFORD, AND BOROUGH GREEN

MIDDLESEX AND HERTFORDSHIRE BYWAYS

THE BACK WAY TO BRIGHTON

BARKING TO SOUTHEND AND SHEPPEY

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Charles G. Harper

Published by Good Press, 2022

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The stern, austere character of the original Quakers—Cobbett calls them “unbaptized, buttonless blackguards”—is reflected in the look both of their burial-ground and their meeting-house. Nothing less like a place of worship could be imagined. Many in style—or in the lack of style—like it are to be seen in the New England States of the United States of America, to whose then desolate shores many of the early Quakers carried the creed that made them outcasts in their native land; and the American citizens who throng here in summer must often be struck with the complete likeness of the scene to many Pennsylvanian Quaker places of meeting.

The plot where Penn and many others lie is just an enclosed field, and not until recent years were any memorials placed over some of their resting-places. A dozen small headstones now mark the grave of William Penn, the Founder of the State, and others of his family.

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