The whole is of the ordinary stone of the country, the upper part of the tower excepted, which is composed of squared stone or chalk, having been repaired in 1672. A new church, however, is about to be erected. There is a descent from the church-yard into the porch by several steps, and from the porch into the interior by several more; so that the floor of the edifice is many feet below the level of the ground outside of it. Here are interred some member of the illustrious family of the Duke of Norfolk. That eminent scholar and critic, Jeremiah Markland, has also a brass-plate inscribed to his memory, from the pen of Dr. Heberden: he died in 1776, at Milton Court, a farm-house near Dorking, where he had spent the last 22 years of his life in the utmost privacy.

In a direct line with the Stane Street, at the distance of three miles and a half southward from Dorking, is a considerable eminence, known by, the name of Hanstic Bury, that is the burg, or fortress, on the Hean Stige, or high road. The traces of this fortress are very discernible at the present day; it appearing to have been nearly of a circular form, surrounded with a double trench, except on the south, south-east, and south-west, where the precipice rendered it unnecessary; and enclosing an area of 11 acres, one rood, and six perches, having the principal entrance on the north-east. From its circular form, it has been usual to ascribe this work to the Danes, who, it is probable, encamped here previously to their defeat at Ockley in 851. In the adjoining fields have been found the heads of arrows, made of flint, shaped like a heart, and about an inch and a half in length. The area of this camp was planted by Mr. Walter, while it was in his possession, with forest-trees of various kinds, intersected with ridings opening upon different quarters, and exhibiting many beautiful and striking prospects of the country beneath. Indeed the eminences all around Dorking are delightful, and command prospects whose magnificence

is not to be surpassed by those of any inland county in the kingdom.

West Beechworth, before mentioned as a parochial member of Dorking, has its principal mansion on the site of an ancient castle, which occupied an eminence on the western bank of the Mole. Abraham Tucker, Esq. author of "The Light of Nature Pursued,' purchased this estate in 1727, and lived here till the period of his death in 1774. It descended to his eldest daughter, who, dying unmarried, left it to Sir Henry Paulet St. John Mildmay, from whom it was obtained by purchase by Henry Peters, Esq. who has made great improvements and enlargements. The park is remarkable for the noble timber with which it is adorned. The outer park is skirted with chesnut trees of very large dimensions; and the inner, at the extremity of which the house is situated, has two fine avenues, the one of elms, the other, 350 yards in length, composed of a triple row of limes of extraordinary size and height. The Downs, rising to a considerable height from the opposite bank of the Mole, are finely chequered with yew and box trees of great antiquity, which form a scene not less venerable than pleasing. Of the latter, in particular, there were formerly such abundance, that the part of the Downs contiguous to the stream, and within the precinct of the manor, has always been known by the name of Box-hill. Sir Henry Mildmay, while in possession of West Beechworth, sold the box upon this hill for £15,000; the purchaser being allowed 14 years to cut it down. In 1802, 40 tons were cut; and from the great quantity which has thus been brought into the market, and the limited use to which it can be applied, the value of this wood is said to have very greatly fallen.

WOTTON, or WODETON parish, which formerly gave name to the hundred, extends in length nine miles from north to south, though its breadth scarcely in any part exceeds a mile. On the south it adjoins to the parish