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land they pleased. That was the origin of the hamlet 

 of Burgh Heath. The descendants of those filibusters 

 have in most cases rebuilt the original hovels, but it 

 is still a somewhat forlorn place, made sordid by the 

 tumbledown pigsties and sheds on the heath in which 

 they have acquired a prescriptive freehold. 



Passing Lion Bottom, or Wilderness Bottom, we 

 come to Tad worth Corner, past the grounds of Tad worth 

 Court, late the seat of Lord Russell of Killowen, better 

 known as Sir Charles Russell. He was created a 

 Baron in 1894, on his becoming Lord Chief Justice ; 

 but the title was — at his own desire — limited to a 

 life-peerage, and consequently at his death in 1900 

 became extinct. At Tad worth, in the horsey 

 neighbourhood of Epsom, he was as much at home as 

 in the Law Courts, and neither so judicial nor restrained, 

 as those who remember his peppery temper and the 

 objurgatory language of his " Here, you. where the 



are you coming to, you , 



you ! ' will admit. There seems, in fact, an especial 

 fitness in his residence on this Regency Road, for his 

 speech was the speech rather of that, than of the more 

 mealy mouthed Victorian, period. 



At Tadworth Court, where the ways divide, and a 

 most picturesque view of long roads, dark fir trees, 

 and a weird-looking windmill unfolds itself, formerly 

 stood a toll-gate. A signpost directs on the right to 

 Headley and Walton, and on the left to Reigate and 

 Redhill, and a battered milestone which no one can 

 read stands at the foot of it. The church spire on 

 the left is that of Kingswood. 



From London to Reigate, through Sutton, is, 

 according to Cobbett, " about as villainous a tract as 

 England contains. The soil is a mixture of gravel and 

 clay, with big yellow stones in it, sure sign of really 

 bad land." The greater part of this is, of course, now 

 covered by the suburbs of " the Wen," as Cobbett 

 delighted to style London ; and it is both unknown to 

 and immaterial to most people what maimer of soil 

 their houses are built on ; but the truth of Cobbett's 

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