Ainsworth, W. Harrison,209-222Albourne,248Ansty Cross,93,222Aram, Eugene,172“Autopsy,” Steam Carriage,37,63,88Banks, Sir Edward,136Banstead Downs,159-161Barrymore, The,6,192,267Belmont,159Benhilton,156Bicycles,64-71,74-79,85-91Bird, Lieutenant Edward, murderer,169-172Bolney,200,243,246“Boneshakers”,65Brighton,2,12,37,255-272Railway opened,42Road Records tabulated,88-91Routes to,1-4Brixton,92,97-100Hill,68,93,98,105Broad Green,108,129Burgess Hill,223Burgh Heath,159-161Carriers, The,11-14Charles II.,270Charlwood,175Chipstead,135-138Clayton,93,102,231,250Hill,25,229,231-232Tunnel,229-231Coaches:—Accommodation,26Age,29,30,351852-1862,42,45,471875-1880, 1882-3,46Alert,33,34Coburg,30Comet,331887-1899, 1900,46,49,55Coronet,33Criterion,41,64,74,88Dart,33Defiance,28,461880, —Duke of Beaufort,31“Flying Machine,” coach,18-22Life-Preserver,30Magnet,33Mails, The,23,26,28,33,34,42Old Times, 1866,451888,49-51Quicksilver,38Red Rover,41,63,88Regent,33Sovereign,33Times,33Union,33Venture (A. G. Vanderbilt),61Victoria,42Vigilant, 1900-05, —Wonder,38Coaching,5,11-14,18-34,37-49,228Coaching Notabilities:—Angel, B. J.,45,46Armytage, Col.,45Batchelor, Jas.,14Beaufort, Duke of,45,46Beckett, Capt. H. L.,46Blyth, Capt.,46Bradford, “Miller”,26Clark, George,45Cotton, Sir St. Vincent,29,45Fitzgerald, Mr.,45Fownes, Edwin,46Freeman, Stewart,46,49Gwynne, Sackville Frederick,29Harbour, Charles,41,64Haworth, Capt.,45,46Jerningham, Hon. Fred.,29Lawrie, Capt.,45Londesborough, Earl of,46McCalmont, Hugh,46Meek, George,46Pole, E. S. Chandos,45,46Pole-Gell, Mr.,46Sandys, Hon. H.,49Selby, Jas.,41,49,64,73,74,75,89Stevenson, Henry,29,30Stracey-Clitherow, Col.,46Thynne, Lord H.,45Tiffany, Mr.,46Vanderbilt, Alfred Gwynne,61Wemyss, Randolph,49Wiltshire, Earl of,46Worcester, Marquis of,29,38Coaching Records,41,64,73,74,88,89Cold Blow,159Colliers’ Water,108Colliers of Croydon,108Coulsdon,131,133County Oak,178Covert, Family of,238-244Crawley,93,173,182-195Crawley Downs,191-193Croydon,106-123Cuckfield,30,202-209Place,209-222,242Cycling,64-71,74-79,85-91Cycling Notabilities:—Edge, Selwyn Francis,75,76,89Holbein, M. A.,74Mayall, John, Junior,66-69,70,88Shorland, F. W.,74,89Smith, C. A.,75,76,77,89Turner, Rowley B.,66,67,69Cycling Records,68-79,85-91Dale,93,248,250Dance, Sir Charles,37,39Ditchling,224Driving Records,63,73,194Earlswood Common,93,146,148Fauntleroy, Henry,196Foxley Hatch,93,126Frenches,93,145Friar’s Oak,226Gatton,141-145,164Gatwick,155George IV., Prince Regent and King,3,6,8-11,24,62,88,132,191-194,256-262,266Hancock, Walter,34,88Hand Cross,24,93,195,198-201Hill,61Hassall, Phœbe,268Hassocks,226Hayward’s Heath,205Hickstead,200,245“Hobby-horses”,65Holmesdale,172Hooley,136Horley,93,149,151-155,173Ifield,175,178-182,188“Infant,” Steam Carriage,37Inns (mentioned at length):—Black Swan, Pease Pottage,195Chequers, Horley,152Cock, Sutton,159Friar’s Oak,24,226George, Borough,12-14Crawley,114,187,189Golden Cross, Charing Cross,20,33Green Cross, Ansty Cross,222Greyhound, Croydon,114Sutton,159Hatchett’s (seeWhite Horse Cellar).Old King’s Head, Croydon,115Old Ship, Brighton,12Red Lion, Hand Cross,200Six Bells, Horley,153Surrey Oaks, Parkgate,179Tabard, Borough (seeTalbot).Talbot, Borough,12-14,17Talbot, Cuckfield,206Tangier, Banstead Downs,160White Horse Cellar, Piccadilly,34Jacob’s Post,224Johnson, Dr. Samuel,102-105,257Kennersley,173Kennington,92-96Kimberham Bridge,173Kingswood,162Lade, Sir John,267Lemon, Mark,190Little Hell,159Lowfield Heath,173-175,182Merstham,93,134,138-141Milestones,126-130,159,163Mitcham,155Mole, River,149,152,173-175,196Motor-cars,50,53,54,57-61,63Motor-car Day, Nov. 14th, 1896,53-60Motor-omnibus, Accident to,60Newdigate,176Newtimber,247,248Norbury,195Old-time Travellers:—Burton, Dr. John,16Cobbett, William,161,165,168,178George IV., Prince Regent and King (see“George the Fourth.”)Walpole, Horace,16-18Pangdean,253Patcham,25,93,250,251-255Pavilion, The,256-261,268Pease Pottage,195,197Pedestrian Records,64,69,72,75,79-91Pilgrims’ Way, The,164Povey Cross,155,173,175Preston,93,250,255Prize-fighting,5,191,248-250Pugilistic Notabilities:—Cribb, Tom,190Fewterel,132Hickman, “The Gas-Light Man”,192Jackson, “Gentleman”,132,159Martin, “Master of the Rolls”,5,192Randall, Jack, “the Nonpareil”,5,192Sayers, Tom,248Purley,93,121-125,130,176Pyecombe,200,249,250Railway to Brighton opened,42,131“Records”,61-91(Seeseverally,Coaching,Cycling,Driving,Pedestrian, andRiding).Tabulated,88-91Redhill,93,145Reigate,27,93,164-172Hill,162-164Riding Records,62,88Roman Roads,102“Rookwood”,209-222Routes to Brighton,1-4Rowlandson, Thomas,157,185,187,203,263Ruskin, John,106,115Russell of Killowen, Baron,161Russell (orRussel), Dr. Richard,262St. John’s Common,103,223St. Leonard’s Forest,196,199Salfords,93,149,173Sayers Common,248Sidlow Bridge,173Slaugham,238-246Place,240-242Slough Green,93Smitham Bottom,68,129,131-133,136Southwark,12-14Staplefield Common,200Steam Carriages,34,37,50,63Stoat’s Nest,132Stock Exchange Walk,80-82Stonepound,93,227,231Streatham,100,103-105,107Surrey Iron Railway, The,122,136Sussex Roads,15,178,237,242,237,242Sutton,93,156-159,161Tadworth Court,161Tettersell, Captain,268,270Thackeray, W. M.,9,10,266Thornton Heath,103,105-108Thrale Place,103-105Thrales, The,103-105Thunderfield Castle,149-152Tilgate Forest Row,173,196Tooke, John Horne,124Turnpike Gates,92,126,145,195,226-228,253Velocipedes,65-69Walking Records (seePedestrian Records).Westminster Bridge,1,3,14,129Whiteman’s Green,202Whitgift, Archbishop,109-114Wilderness Bottom,161Withdean,253,255Wivelsfield,224Woodhatch,93Wray Park,93
Footnotes:
[1]He was a baker; hence the nickname.
[2]Henry Barry, Earl of Barrymore, in the peerage of Ireland.
[3]Hiatusin the Journals, arranged by the editor for benefit of the Young Person!
[4]Kirkpatrick Macmillan, in 1839-40, invented a dwarf, rear-driving machine of the “safety” type, and was fined at Glasgow for “furiously riding.” He made and sold several, but they attained nothing more than local and temporary success.
[5]
“There’s nothing brings you roundLike the trumpet’s martial sound.”—W. S. Gilbert.“The Pirates of Penzance.”
[6]In 1829 there were three additional gates: one at Crawley, another at Hand Cross, before you came to the “Red Lion,” and one more at Slough Green. Meanwhile the Horley gate on this route had disappeared. At a later period another gate was added, at Merstham, just past the “Feathers.” On the other routes there were, of course, yet more gates—e.g., those of Sutton, Reigate, Wray Park, Woodhatch, Dale, and many more.
Salfords gate was the last on the main Brighton Road. It remained until midnight, October 31st. 1881, when the Reigate Turnpike Trust expired, after an existence of 126 years. Not until then did this most famous highway become free and open throughout its whole distance.
[7]Preface to “Præterita,” dated May 10th, 1885.
[8]The name derives from a farm so called, marked on a map of 1716 “Stotes Ness.”
[9]“Sir Edward Banks, Knight, of Sheerness, Isle of Sheppey, and Adelphi Terrace, Strand, Middlesex, whose remains are deposited in the family vault in this churchyard. Blessed by Divine Providence with an honest heart, a clear head, and an extraordinary degree of perseverance, he rose superior to all difficulties, and was the founder of his own fortune; and although of self-cultivated talent, he in early life became contractor for public works, and was actively and successfully engaged during forty years in the execution of some of the most useful, extensive, and splendid works of his time; amongst which may be mentioned the Waterloo, Southwark, London, and Staines Bridges over the Thames, the Naval Works at Sheerness Dockyard, and the new channels for the rivers Ouse, Nene, and Witham in Norfolk and Lincolnshire. He was eminently distinguished for the simplicity of his manners and the benevolence of his heart; respected for his inflexible integrity and his pure and unaffected piety; in all the relations of his life he was candid, diligent, and humane; just in purpose, firm in execution; his liberality and indulgence to his numerous coadjutors were alone equalled by his generosity and charity displayed in the disposal of his honourably-acquired wealth. He departed this life at Tilgate, Sussex ... on the 5th day of July, 1835, in the sixty-sixth year of his age.”
[10]Matthew Buckle, Admiral of the Blue; born 1716, died 1784.
[11]He really drove the other way; from Carlton House to Brighton.