THE EXETER 

 ROAD 



From Hyde Park Corner, wlience it is measured, to 

 the west end of Hounslow town, the Exeter Eoad is 

 identical with the road to Bath. At that point the 

 ways divide. The right-hand road leads to Bath, 

 by way of Maidenhead ; the Exeter Road goes off to 

 the left, through Staines, to Basingstoke, Whitchurch, 

 and Andover ; where, at half a mile beyond that 

 town, there is a choice of routes. 



The shortest way to Exeter, the ' Queen City of 

 the West,' is by taking the right-hand road at this last 

 point and proceeding thence through Weyhill, Mullen's 

 Pond, Park House, and Amesbury to Deptford Inn, 

 Hindon, Mere, Wincanton, Ilchester, Ilminster, and 

 Honiton. This ' short cut,' which is the hilliest and 

 bleakest of all the bleak and hilly routes to Exeter, is 

 165 miles, 6 furlons^s in length. Another wav, not 

 much more than 2^ miles longer, is by turning to the 

 left at this fork just outside Andover, and going 

 thence to Salisbury, Shaftesbury, Sherborne, Yeovil, 

 Crewkerne, and Chard, to meet the other route at 

 Honiton ; at which point, in f;ict, all routes met. A 



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