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Hartley Row which adjoins. Hartley Row was 

 absolutely called into existence by the demand in the 

 old days of road travel for stabling, inns, and refresh- 

 ments, and is one of the most thoroughly representa- 

 tive of such roadside settlements. Half a mile to the 

 south of the great highway is the parent village of 

 Hartley Wintney, unknown to and undreamt of by 

 travellers in those times, and probably much the 



ROADSIDE SCENE (AFTER ROWLAN'DSON). 



same as it was in the Middle Ages. The well-named 

 ' Row,' on the other hand, sprang up, grew lengthy, 

 and flourished exceedingly during the sixty years of 

 coaching prosperity, and then, at one stroke, was 

 ruined. What Bray ley, the historian of Surrey, 

 wrote of Bagshot in 1841, applies even more elo- 

 quently to Hartley Row : ' Its trade has been 

 entirely ruined by the opening of the Southampton 

 and Great AVestern Railroads, and its numerous inns 



