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IV. LONDON, SEVENOAKS, TUNBRIDGE, RYE, AND WINCHELSEA, 65 Miles.

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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 1841, 4325.

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Morant's Court Hill, 20 the summit of which commands a fine prospect.

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SEVENOAKS is a pleasant town, and derives its name from seven oak-trees which formerly occupied the height on which it is built. The church is an elegant build-| ing, and, from its commanding situation, is a conspicuous object. The town has a Grammar-School, and al large range of alms-houses, instituted by Sir William de Sevenoke, a foundling, brought up by some charitable persons in the town from which he received his name. Population of parish, 2462.

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Panthurst.

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River Hill.

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Otford.

Dunton Green.

Bradbourn House, Ed.

Douglas, Esq.

Wilderness, Marquis Cam

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Knowle Park, (the seat) of the Sackville fami-! ly). This magnificent mansion covers upwards of five acres of ground, and furnishes specimens of the architecture of al variety of ages,-the most ancient being as old as the Mareschels and Bigods, the most modern being the erection of Thomas, first Earl of Dorset, in the reign of James I. It has an invaluable collection of pictures and antique busts. The park contains herds of fine deer, a variety of excellent timber, and covers an extent of five or six miles in circumference. Rumsted.

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* 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. Excursions may be made to Penshurst, 5 miles distant; Bridge Castle, 2 miles distant; Hever, 7 miles distant; Bayham Abbey (Marquis of Camden), 6 miles 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.

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VII, LONDON.-UCKFIELD.-EAST BOURNE, 623 Miles.

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Langley Park, E. Good-528 London Br. to Bromley 10 heart, Esq.

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(Kent.) (See p. 8.)

Keston.
Leaves Green.
South Street.
Westerham.

To Reigate, 13 m. To East Grinstead, 162| miles.

To Maidstone, 22 m.

Lindhurst.

Holwood Ho., J. Ward,

14 Esq. The old mansion15 house of Holwood was for 183 many years the favourite

4 retirement of Mr Pitt. On 21 west side of Hoiwood Hill

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Eden Br.

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cr. river Eden.

are the remains of an extensive encampment, supposed to be of Roman origin.

Hill Park-Jesson, Esq.

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