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THE BATH ROAD 



to the Bath Road just here. An old print of this 

 period shows us how George the Third used to travel 

 on tliis road to London, or to the unkingly domestic 

 life at Kew Palace, where the farmer-like reputation 

 of that not very brilliant monarch was sustained on 

 boiled mutton and turnips, and improving books. 

 The hamlet of Langley Broom, one and a half miles 



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ALMSHOUSES, LANGLEY. 



on tlie way, is the uninteresting offshoot of the prett}' 

 village of Langley Marisli (or " Marshy Langley "), 

 that lies just within siglit of the road, and has some 

 delightful old red-brick almshouses, which, together 

 with the ancient library and painted room of Renais- 

 sance period in the church, render the place w^orthy a 

 visit. This is all there is to interest the stranger, 



