Some Literary Landmarks for Pilgrims on Wheels

By F. W. Bockett19018 chapters

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Contents

• I. Sandford and Merton (opens in a new tab)

  An essay on cycling as the Gentle Art, then a ride from Surrey through Chobham, Bagshot, Swinley Forest and Bracknell to Wargrave, where the narrator finds Thomas Day's tablet in the church and the sexton's account of his death.
• II. Soldier, Grammarian, and Politician (opens in a new tab)

  A talk with a schoolmaster at Woking about Cobbett's French grammar, then a ride by Guildford and the Hog's Back to Farnham, with Cobbett's birthplace at the Jolly Farmer, Augustus Toplady's hymn, Cobbett's Rural Rides, and his grave.
• III. The Ghosts of a Surrey Park (opens in a new tab)

  A ride from Woking by Merrow to Newland's Corner and Albury, with Sutton Court, Shere and its church, the Silent Pool and the Catholic Apostolic Cathedral, ending at Moor Park and Dorothy Osborne's letters.
• IV. Among the Poets (opens in a new tab)

  A ride round the poets' corner by Cooper's Hill and Sunninghill, where George Ellis and Walter Scott met, then Virginia Water, Shelley's Bishopsgate and Alastor, Runnymede and Denham's Cooper's Hill, Horton with Milton's church, and Cowley's house at Chertsey.
• V. Jane Austen and Gilbert White (opens in a new tab)

  A March ride across a frozen Surrey common with Cowley's Essays, past Selous's museum and Ash to Alton, Chawton and Jane Austen's house and her death at Winchester, then Selborne, Gilbert White's house, The Wakes, Timothy the tortoise, the Hanger and White's grave.
• VI. Parson Lot (opens in a new tab)

  A dispirited lecturer, Dum, and the narrator ride in April through Hammersmith, Staines and Yately to Eversley, where Charles Kingsley's grave under the fir, his church and rectory, the sexton's memories and Kingsley's family life are described.
• VII. Some Moderns (opens in a new tab)

  A day's ride from Kingston through Esher and Ripley to Guildford and Godalming, with Compton and Watts's tile chapel, Haslemere's museum and Hutchinson's lectures, Tennyson's Blackdown, George Eliot at Shottermill, Hindhead with Conan Doyle and Grant Allen, and the Devil's Punchbowl.
• VIII. Gentle Folk (opens in a new tab)

  Charles Lamb's country: Tottenham, Edmonton with Lamb's cottage and grave, Mackery End and Enfield, then Izaak Walton's Lea at Amwell, Hoddesdon, Broxbourne and Cheshunt, ending at Temple Bar in Theobald's Park.