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Hassock's Gate, and I mean to. What business 

 has anyone to take the gate off? No more, I 

 guess, than to cut away Burgess's hill or 

 Hay ward's heath, or Wivel's field.) I believe as 

 nice an excursion as a moderate walker can want 

 can be had, starting by rail to Falmer, then 

 through Lord Chichester's Park, and over the 

 downs straight across to Plumpton Borstal. A 

 second, also by way of Falmer Station, can be 

 mapped out, turning to the left past the Swan in 

 the village ; and a third, perhaps the pleasantest 

 of all while it lasts, is to make the longer little 

 railway journey on to Lewes, then pass the race- 

 stand (there are three distinct picturesque ways 

 of walking between the White Hart and the 

 racecourse), and on over by Black Cap and down 

 through a long copse which brings you not far 

 from Plumpton Crossways, on the very ancient 

 road between Lewes and Bramber castles. By- 

 the-by, if, starting from Lewes, you stick to the 

 metal and keep under the hills by Offham, after- 

 wards leaving Cooksbridge on your right, you 

 have rare going along one of the best roads in 

 England, and pretty scenery on each hand all the 

 way. I have not come to the end of my list yet, 

 but, as I have a good deal more to say, let the 

 remainder of the routes stand over, merely 

 remarking that, thanks to fossicking about in the 

 style indicated, I can always if I so desire do 

 Plumpton pretty fully without going near the 

 place. What do you think ? 



I never go near Plumpton without wishing 

 that someone would put up a nice hotel there, 

 and bring enough customers to make the spec, 

 answer. A rare site this for a convalescents' 

 resort, to which sound folk might come at will. 



