Our Cycling Tour in England Author:Reuben Gold Thwaites Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. CHICHESTER, GOODWOOD, AND MIDHURST. TV/TIDHURST, Sussex, Friday, zth. There ap- pears no need of setting down in my journal any particula... more »rs of what we did at Chichester this morning. We can read all about it in the numerous guide-books when we get home, if our memories need refreshing; yet it seems now as though here were imprinted brain-pictures which can never be effaced; here were impressions gained which will never grow dim. From the summit of the detached bell-tower we had the most comprehensive view. The city (eight thousand inhabitants) is a jumble of red- tiled roofs, with the old gray Norman cathedral towering far above them. All around, beyond the ancient city walls, still for the most part intact, flat green fields stretch away for many miles; and through them we see the Lavant, merely a meadow-creek, winding its lazy way. From Lewes to Chichester we had been proceeding westward, following the coast by highways from two to a half-dozen miles inland. Our path to Alton (Hants), by the way of Midhurst and Petersfield, was henceforth to be north and west. Early this afternoon we retraced for a mile the broad white Arundel road along the Lavant, and then turning to the left wheeled northward through shady lanes and on by-roads to Goodwood House, the superb seat of the Duke of Richmond. Learning at the lodge that the ducal family were away, we made arrangements to visit the mansion, only open to the public in their absence, which fortunately is frequent. The housekeeper was at lunch, however, and we were obliged to await her pleasure. In front of the stables, which in exterior design might well have done duty for a gentleman's country house, a knot of jolly young ostlers were making merry over the frantic efforts of one of their fellows to lea...« less