At Kennington Church we leave the Brighton Way and pass Clapham Common, Tooting and Merton to Cheam (11-1/4 m.) Ewell and Epsom (14-1/2 m.) The Downs and Race-course are up to the left.

Ashtead.

Leatherhead (18-1/2 m.).  This little town has some picturesque streets, but is rapidly becoming suburban.  The Perpendicular church contains interesting windows.  The scenery now greatly improves and becomes beautiful after passing Mickleham, a pretty village with a Transitional church.

[Illustration:  CAUSEWAY, HORSHAM.]

Norbury Park, on the right, is one of the most charming places in Surrey.  Box Hill (590 feet), which may easily be ascended from the well-placed Burford Bridge Hotel, is on the left.  The road, river and rail run through a deep cleft in the North Downs forming the Mole valley and facing the sandstone hills of the Weald.  In the shallow depression between the two ranges lies Dorking (23-1/4 m.).  The town is pleasant but has nothing of much interest for the visitor.  It is for its fine situation from a scenic point of view and as a convenient headquarters from which to explore the best of Surrey that it will be appreciated.  The rebuilt parish church is imposing and stands on the site of the ancient Roman Stane Street.  We leave the town by South Street and proceed to Holmwood, from which Leith Hill may be visited, though there are more direct and much finer routes from Dorking.

Capel (28-3/4 m.).  We are now in quiet wealden scenery and there is nothing of special interest until we cross the Sussex boundary, about half a mile beyond the railway bridge.  Kingsfold (31-1/2 m.).  We now bear left and again 1-1/2 miles farther by Warnham Pond, with memories of Shelley.

Horsham (36 m.).  This prosperous and pleasant county centre makes a good halting place.  The Early English and Perpendicular church is worth a visit, although practically rebuilt in the middle of the last century.  The fine proportions and spacious and lofty interior will at once strike the visitor.  Notice the altar tomb of Thomas de Braose (1396), Lord Hoo (1455), Eliz.  Delves (1645), and a brass of Thomas Clerke (1411).  Also the ancient font.  The old “Causeway,” which leads to the church from Carfax, as the centre of the town is called, should be more popular with artists than it is.  The wonderful colour of some of the Horsham roofs will be noticed; this is due to the local stone with which the older roofs are covered.  It seems a pity from an aesthetic point of view that the quarries are no longer used.  The great weight of the covering had another advantage, it made for sturdy building and honest workmanship.  Horsham no longer has the artificial importance of returning members to Parliament (at one time, two; and as lately as 1885 one), but is now merged in the western division of Sussex, of which district it shares with Midhurst the position of chief agricultural and commercial centre.  The town is also becoming residential as East Grinstead, on the other side of the county, has already done.