LURCHER-LAND: 'THE PARK' The time of the apple-bloom is the most delicious season in Sarsen village.

It is scarcely possible to obtain a view of the place, although it is built on the last slope of the Downs, because just where the ground drops and the eye expects an open space, plantations of fir and the tops of tall poplars and elms intercept the glance.

In ascending from the level meadows of the vale thick double mounds, heavily timbered with elm, hide the houses until you are actually in their midst.
Those only know a country who are acquainted with its footpaths.

By the roads, indeed, the outside may be seen; but the footpaths go through the heart of the land.

There are routes by which mile after mile may be travelled without leaving the sward.