BAGSHOT 



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situated in the little hollows watered by descending 

 brooks. 



Bagshot has nearly forgotten the old coaching- 

 days in the growing importance of its military sur- 

 roundings, and most of its once celebrated inns have 

 retired into private life, all except the ' King's Arms.' 



The ground to the north of the Exeter Road, on 



the west of Bagshot village, was once a j)eat moor. 

 Hazel-nuts and bog -oak were often dug up there. 

 Then beo-an the usual illeoal encroachments on what 

 was really common land, and stealthily the moor was 

 enclosed and subsequently converted into a nursery- 

 ground for rhododendrons, which Hourish amazingly 

 on this soil when it has once been trenched. Beneath 

 the black sand which usually covers this ground there 

 frequently occurs a very hard iron rust, or thin stratum 



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