Tabloid Tour
London to Kingston, 12 miles ; Chertsey, 04; Bagshot, 94; Yateley, 7; Mortimer, 11; Aldermaston, 62; Newbury, 81 ; Whitchurch, 13; Sutton Scotney, 5f; Stockbridge, 74; Lopcornbo Corner, 62; Salisbury, 7j; Amesbury, 94; Thruxton, 9; Andover, 41 ; Whitchurch, 61; Baeingstoke, 114-; Hook, ; Blackwater,
94-; Bagshot, 44-; Egham, ; Staines, If ; Hounslow, 64-; London, 104-. Total, 191/ miles.
INSTEAD of leaving London by the ordinary route through Clapham and Wandsworth, the road via Hammersmith, over Kew Bridge and through Richmond Park, which is looking at its best now, should be followed. Between Kingston and Chertsey there is much pretty river scenery, followed by some open commons. A mile beyond Bagshot, at the '.Jolly Farmers' inn, the right-hand road is followed—that to the left is to Farnham and Portsmouth—taking one a pretty drive through Camberley to Blacicwater, and on to Yateley, where the church, with its Norman door, is worth seeing.
The run from Yateley to Aldermaston is a very pretty and interesting one. At Mortimer a slight detour should be made to Silehester, the finest of all our Roman remains. The run to Salisbury is along a Roman mad, which traverses the Downs. Salisbury, on its four rivers, is full of relies of past days.
Amesbury, two miles from which is Stonehenge, is perhaps one of the most interesting places in the kingdom ; from Amesbury there is a good run to Andover. Five miles beyond is Hurstbourne Priors, with its very fine Norman churcho and in another two miles Whitchurch, an old coaching centre. Thence the main road to London is followed by way of Basingstoke, Hook, Hartley Row, and so to Bagshot.
• E. T. Baowm.
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