CHAPTER VIII 



SUSSEX ROAD-LORE 



Would organising a milestone maintenance and 

 restoration fund be possible ? Often I have 

 alluded to their being removed, maimed, or 

 destroyed, wantonly or of set design. Nowhere 

 do I find the work of restoration, or even substi- 

 tuting poorer apologies for the old indicators. 

 Still, one may as well keep on appealing, as 

 perhaps sooner or later we may wake up the 

 somebody whose business it is to see after such 

 matters and who makes a business of not doing 

 so. Foundation of complaint is apparent pretty 

 much all over the country, in some parts more 

 than others, but nowhere is the inquiring traveller 

 who wants to know, you know, worse off than 

 about Brighton and those parts. On — or, rather 

 off — the Shoreham road the milestones have 

 pretty well gone altogether. The going of one 

 noted landmark — ''the six-mile stone," as it was 

 generally spoken of, opposite a small pub. at New 

 Shoreham, the Royal George, if I recollect right — 

 marks a quite serious local loss. What for should 

 anybody move it away, I want to know. Again, 

 the little bits of wood which did duty between 

 Brighton and Lewes, and along towards East- 



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