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[Fig. 1. Cheshuiu Cottage, from ihe Road.] 



Green, called the Green Lanes, between the Tottenham and Edmonton 

 road and the Barnet road, and threading our way through numerous inter- 

 esting lanes, we may pass through very rural and umbrageous scenery, 

 with the appearance of but few houses of any kind. Indeed, it may be 

 mentioned as one of the most remarkable circumstances in the state of the 

 country in the neighbourhood of London, that, while all the main roads are 

 bordered by houses for some miles from town, so as almost to resemble 

 streets, there are tracts which lie between the main roads, and quite near 

 town, which have undergone little or no change in the nature of their 

 occupation for several, and apparently many, generations ; at all events, 

 not since the days of Queen Elizabeth. The tracts of country to which we 

 allude are in pasture or meadow, with crooked irregular hedges, numer- 

 ous stiles and footpaths, and occasional houses by the roadsides ; the farms 

 characterized by large hay-barns. Scenery of this kind is never seen by 

 the citizen who goes to his country seat along the public road, in his fami- 

 ly carriage or in a stage-coach ; and it is accordingly only known to pe- 

 destrians, and such as are not afraid of driving their horses over rough 

 roads, or meeting waggons or hay-carts in narrow lanes. The road through 

 the Green Lanes to Enfield is an excellent turnpike road, always in a good 

 state, with occasional villas near Bour Farm and Palmer's Green; and 



