140 LONDON ANGLER'S BOOK, 



THE DARENT. 



This beautiful little stream enters the Thames at 

 Dartford Creek, passing the latter town, the village 

 of Darent, Horton Kirby, Farningham, Eynesford, 

 Shoreham, Otford, and to Riverhead, where it rises. 

 This stream is decidedly a Trout stream, and contains 

 many fish of large and fine character, and runs 

 through many parks and preserves ; there are but few 

 places where you may wet a line with safety ; you 

 may certainly get a day now and then in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Farningham, upon application to the 

 land-owners and millers at Eynesford, in the estate of 

 the late Sir Thomas Dyke; you might, with little 

 difficulty, obtain permission to whip the stream for a 

 day, but, unfortunately, this gentleman has paid the 

 debt of nature, and his successor, I am told, (but 

 hope without foundation,) is not disposed to act so 

 kindly to the bobbers. 



The Plough at Eynsford is a good house to put up 

 at. At the lower part of the stream there are some 

 fine Gudgeons and Dace, Roach, &c. The largest 

 Gudgeons I ever saw were taken in the neighbourhood 

 of Dartford. 



FIXING THE GLASS AT THE SEVEN 

 MILE STONE IN THE DOVER ROAD. 



Two brothers of the angle, whom T shall designate by the 

 familiar appellation of Charley and Jem, were bravely stretching 

 their legs towards Shooter's hill, on a fishing excursion in Kent 



