104 WAYFARING NOTIONS 



SO kindly volunteered, because the graveyard 

 memorials appeared the older. My road-book 

 makes the stones date from London Bridge and 

 makes no mention of Cheapside at all, while one 

 of the recorders itself states a distance from 

 Westminster and the Standard in Cornhill. I 

 do not call to mind Bow Church coming in in 

 this connection. 



The Commons and Footpaths Preservation 

 Society is quite willing to go as low as milestones. 

 I have a letter from Mr Lawrence W. Chubb, 

 the society's secretary, explaining this, and also 

 explaining but too clearly the reasons why they 

 disappear. Unfortunately the state of affairs he 

 indicates, with milestones on the inner side of 

 hedges, or made off with altogether, in process of 

 removing neighbours' landmarks, can be noted 

 all too frequently. The way in which small or 

 large grassy selvedges between the actual high- 

 ways' edges and the adjacent proprietors' legal 

 limits are absorbed is almost wonderful. Many 

 of us are old enough to remember how forest 

 land got itself enclosed wholesale, brought into 

 cultivation, and then chained up to a title some- 

 how manufactured in face of apparent barefaced 

 robbery. A great deal of this assimilation has 

 been stopped, yet much is engineered still from 

 more or less common lands, and quite a lively in- 

 dustry regularly carried on by swell land-grabbers 

 in picking up odds and ends anywhere from road- 

 sides, etc. 



The iron markers on certain Sussex roads 

 were without doubt turned out from the county's 

 own works. The very first of these smelteries 

 for native — i.e., local — iron was installed just on 

 the Crowborough side of the pretty park at 



