Highways and Byways in Sussex online book
An illustrated appreciation, of the most interesting districts in Sussex with particular reference to the charactures, residents and thier histories.
By E. V. Lucas, With Illustrations By Frederick L. Griggs, Published By MacMillan And Co London Circa 1904
This extensive illustrated guide to sussex is, according to the author, "not so much a guide book but more an appreciations of the districts with which they are concerned. In the pages that follow my aim has been to gather a Sussex bouquet rather than to present the facts which the more practical traveller requires.
The order of progress through the country has been determined largely by the lines of railway. I have thought it best to enter Sussex in the west at Midhurst, making that the first centre, and to zig-zag thence across to the east by way of Chichester, Arundel, Petworth, Horsham, Brighton (I name only the chief centres), Cuckfield, East Grinstead, Lewes, Eastbourne, Hailsham, Hastings, Rye, and Tunbridge Wells; leaving the county finally at Withyham, on the borders of Ashdown Forest. For the traveller in a carriage or on a bicycle this route is not the best; but for those who would explore it slowly on foot (and much of the more characteristic scenery of Sussex can be studied only in this way), with occasional assistance from the train, it is, I think, as good a scheme as any."
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