in a short time and with little trouble.  The Downs here are farther off than those at Brighton, but are of much greater interest, and public motors take one easily and cheaply into their heart as we have already shown.  The South Coast Railway runs east and west to Shoreham and Arundel, reaching those super-excellent towns in less than half an hour; and of the walks in the immediate neighbourhood, all have goals which well repay the effort expended in reaching them.

Sompting, which can be combined with Broadwater as an excursion, has already been described; we therefore turn westward again and passing the suburb of Heene, now called West Worthing, arrive, in two and a half miles from the Town Hall, at the village of Goring.  Its rebuilt church is of no interest.  Here Richard Jeffries died in the August of 1887.  A mile farther is West Ferring with a plain Early English church; notice the later Perpendicular stoup at the north door and the piscina, which has a marble shelf.  The Manor House is on the site of an ancient building in which St. Richard of Chichester lived after his banishment by Henry III, and here the saint is said to have miraculously fed three-thousand poor folk with bread only sufficient for a thirtieth of that number.

[Illustration:  SALVINGTON MILL.]

A pleasant ramble through the lanes north of the village leads to Highdown Hill, perhaps the most popular excursion from Worthing; the top has an earthwork probably dating from the stone age.  Human remains of a later date were found here in 1892, also coins, weapons and personal ornaments belonging to the time of the Roman occupation.  The “Miller’s Tomb” is on the side nearest Worthing; it has representations of Time and Death with some verses composed by the miller, John Olliver.  A cottage on the other side of the hill stands on the site of the mill.  The view is particularly fine both Downwards and seawards, though the hill is not half the altitude of Cissbury.  Northwards are the beautiful woods of Castle Goring, once the residence of the Shelleys, through which we may walk to Clapham and Patching, villages on southern spurs of the Downs; the latter has a restored Early English church with a very beautiful modern reredos.  Clapham has a Transitional church containing memorials of the Shelley family.  Notice the blocked-up Norman arch which proves the existence of an earlier building.  On the south is a venerable farmhouse, ancient and picturesque.

[Illustration:  OLD HOUSES AT LARRING.]

The return journey to Worthing may be taken through Salvington, passing the ruins of Durrington chapel; at the south end of the village at the cottage named “Lacies” John Selden was born in 1584.  On the door post is a Latin inscription said to have been composed by him when ten years old; it runs thus:—­

  Gratus, honeste, mihi, non claudar, initio sedebis,
  Fur abeas non sum facta soluta tibi.

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