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every Sunday in the summer months from three to five. This ground 

 was attended during the last year by 16,839 persons from the neigh- 

 bouring towns and villages. Not far off is an old house, formerly a 

 hunting box of King John, which is open to the public, and where any 

 amount of bread and butter, tea and buns, can be obtained at a slight 

 cost. This, during the last year, drew 4,346 persons. The visitors to 

 the Museum in the same year amounted to 7,000 persons (attendances 

 at lectures and other meetings not included), and the numbers at all 

 three places have been increasing year after year. The people come 

 from a radius of twenty miles round, and it has been very successful, 

 in so far as the number of visitors is concerned. I have built a small 

 Museum Hotel, at which visitors to the locality can put up, and which 

 has first-class accommodation. Another, called King John's Hotel, 

 has sprung up in an adjoining village. Farnham has become the 

 headquarters of a local bicycle club, which is named after the place. 

 Bicycling is an institution that must not be overlooked in any project 

 for the improvement of the masses. The enormous distances bicyclists 

 can go by road, especially on a Sunday, has rendered the population 

 of country districts locomotive to an extent that has never been known 

 before. Fifty to sixty bicycles are frequently to be seen at my Sunday 

 meetings at the Larmer Grounds, which average from 600 to 1,000 

 people, and the church on Sundays is crowded." 



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