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OLD WEST SURREY 



It would be easy to multiply examples of the country's 

 older buildings, especially of the timber-framed cottages, but a 

 subject so engrossing would need a book to itself, and here I 



Back. Steps, E.nton Mill 



may only give it a chapter. Moreover, such a book has 

 already been ably done. 



But I cannot conclude these brief notes on cottages with- 

 out expressing regret that (as in the matter of the needless 

 use of iron for fences) when new cottages are built, they 

 should not follow local tradition and be built of local material. 



