GREAT TANGLEY MANOR, 



SURREY. 



IV the pleasant district of West Surrey th.it lies 

 south of (tuildtord, standing well away from 

 the high road, is this tK-autiful relic <>t" the 

 domestic architecture of Tudor days. It is the 

 more remarkable in that the district, though it can 

 show many tine old limbered cottages, is not one that 

 has, like the adjoining county ot Sussex, .my in 

 siderahlc number of surviving manor houses of such 

 materials. Indeed, for many miles around, (Jrcat 

 Tanglev stands alone as a type of its time and kind. 

 It will be .seen to have a likeness to the Liiuashire 

 example which precedes it, but to be simpler 

 in outline and more restrained in patterning and 

 ornament. Close to it, southward, rise wooded hills 

 leading to the long stretch of wild heath-clad and 

 Wooded heights known as the Hurt wood an ancient 

 finest, and a favourite haunt of smugglers in the days 



of the Georges. It was m a nearly direit line from 

 the Siis-cx sialxurd to London. Northward is a 

 wide space of level meadow land, evidently the 

 alluvial Hat of an ancient river, of which the Tilling- 

 bourne, a modest stream that flows into the \Ve\ not 

 tar from (iuildford, is now the representative. It 

 waters the valley, working more than one mill on the 

 wax, and irrigates some well known water cress |>eds, 

 as it passes from Shere and Albury. llcxond this, 

 northward, and running east and west, is the broken 

 line of sandstone hills, of which the most salient, 

 St. Martha's, crowned by its ancient church, is a 

 landmark for all the country round. A^ain north- 

 ward, the foot of the sand-hills joins the fin it of the 

 parallel ridge of chalk, which runs for many miles to 

 the east and west. This range is cut through by the 

 river \Vey on its way to join the Thames, and here is 



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