A Bicycle Tour in England and Wales Author:Alfred Dupont Chandler 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: was Barnham Junction, two miles south. In a few moments I had ridden there and returned with word that a Sunday train went up to London that afternoon ; and Lond... more »on was only about fifty miles away. We at once arranged that J. should go up to London, replace his broken machine, and meet me at Portsmouth the next day. This he did, getting another bicycle at Peake's and joining me at the George in Portsmouth, where I had telegraphed to him my arrival the day before. I mention this especially to show how such an accident can be managed in England, where, from almost any county, either London or Coventry (the headquarters for bicycles) may be reached in a few hours or less, and a return made as quickly. It was unnecessary for me to go to London too, so I rode on to Chichester, where I was surprised at the beautiful octagonal cross, fifty feet high, at the junction of four STONEHENGE, DRU1DICAL RUINS, HAMPSHIRE. (PAGE 42.) SALISBURY CATHEDRAL, HAMPSHIRE. Begun in 1220. Spire finished a century later. (page 41.) roads, one of the finest structures of the kind in Great Britain. My dinner that day was a solitary affair without J. I had sole possession of the coffee-room, and was at liberty to appropriate the entire copy of the " Times," instead of a fractional part, as the custom is. My reading had but commenced, when a slight though muscular young gentleman entered the room in bicycle dress, and ordered his dinner. In a few moments we became acquainted. It seemed that he was returning after a week's holiday on his bicycle through the South of England. He had ridden about forty miles that morning, and had about sixty more to do that afternoon and evening before reaching his home. This would be about one hundred miles for the day's run, of which he made light. He expected t...« less