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HASTINGS GUIDE.
The vicinity of Hastings abounds with the most delightful walks and rides, the entrances are remarkably numerous, and it is impossible to select any road that does not lead to some scene of rural amusement: the lands are as beautiful as extensive, and the sea exhibits a continual round of passing variety.
The Hop Gardens, Bohemia, the Old Roar[1], Bexhill, Pevensey, Broomham Park, Winchelsea, Rye, Beauport, Ashburnham, Crowhurst, Battle Abbey, &c. &c. &c. all have charms to please the inquisitive mind or curious or plodding eye.
One circumstance must, above all others, render Hastings dear to those who have a -
- ↑ A cataract in the middle of a thick wood, which falls perpendicularly from a rocky precipice, about 40 feet.