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COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS 



Ewell, Epsom, Dorking, Horsham, and Mockbridge, 

 making the distance fifty-seven miles five furlongs. A 

 more favourite way than any was by Croydon, Merstham, 

 Reigate, Crawley and Cuckfield — making the distance 

 fifty-three miles exactly ; while the longest and the 

 oldest route was through Croydon, Godstone Green, 

 East Grinstead, Nutley, Naresfield, Uckfield, and Lewes 





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— the entire distance being fifty-eight miles two furlongs 

 from the Surrey side of Westminster Bridge, which is 

 the point from which the Brighton Road is measured. 

 Of the celebrated coaches which ran by these various 

 routes, and which all made fast time, due mention must 

 be made, as also of their coachmen, of whom however 

 the already mentioned " Viator " seems to have held no 

 extraordinary opinion. Of the coaches Carey's Itinerary 



