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circuit embraces ancient park lands of inexhaustible 

 fertility. At the centre, as you look south from the 

 Church, is the steep ascent to the far-famed Up Park ; 

 to the left is another winding road to Chilgrove and 

 Chichester, which converges at the foot of a hill a mile 

 long with the road to Up Park. Two separate streams 

 of beeches are thus brought together ; and, near the 

 spot of their confluence, two sweet and abundant 

 springs of the purest water arise to feed the Rother. 

 To the east the downs are open, a wide expanse " on 

 which the sea breezes of the Channel seem to come 

 forth to sun and dry themselves ; " on the table land 

 below is another amphitheatre to the east, while in the 

 far distance the range of the South downs is seen 

 winding its never-ending curve against the horizon, 

 and throwing its graceful folds upon a rich plain. 



Secure on all points to those who could command 

 the Southern hills, there could be no more beautiful 

 bower in England in which to found a home. Doubtless 

 what determined the first choice of the spot for 

 habitation was the constant supply of water, so neces- 

 sary for man t and beast, so important in time of 

 war, and so useful for obtaining motive-power for 

 early machines, which was here provided at what was 

 called, at least as early as Edward the Third's reign, 

 " Typufs Well" when it supplied the Lord's mansion 

 at South Harting. It still has its local memory in an 

 adjacent lane called Typper lane. For miles to the 

 south there is no natural supply of water ; and the 

 well of Lady Holt, not sunk till the end of the 

 1 6th Century, is 240 feet deep. The villages and 

 hamlets in this country were formed in two military 

 lines for defence'against the lawless inhabitants of the 

 Weald on the north. A first line, made at the foot of 

 the downs, would strike Buriton, Harting, Elsted, 

 Treyford, Didling, Bepton, Heyshot, Cocking, and 

 Graffham : a second parallel, about three miles to the 

 north, flanking the Rother, gives the position of Sheet, 



