South-East England Book

Map of Kent     8
Map of Sussex and Surrey     10
Map of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight     12
Foreword     15
Kent     17
The Eurotunnel: An Underwater Prologue     19
Henry's Castles and Wellington's Bed: From Deal to Dymchurch     23
Port Lympne: The Salon Lions of Romney Marsh     26
The Last Garden: Derek Jarman in Dungeness     29
From Broadstairs to Rochester: Dickens was here     32
A Strange German Charles: Uwe Johnson in Sheerness     39
Becket, or The Glory of Canterbury     40
Pilgrims Without a Church: Walking as Art     50
Kent Aglow: Stained Glass by Burne-Jones and Chagall     52
Satirist Among the Tories: Ralph Steadman     57
In the Gardens of the Artists: Where Peter Greenaway Made his Film     58
Oast Houses and Apple Blossom: Villages in the Weald     60
Swan Lake and Magic Battlements: Leeds Castle     62
From Sissinghurst to Chartwell: Vita's Garden and Churchill's Swans     65
Exotic Tudor with Electricity: The Astors of Hever Castle     74
Godinton Park: The English Art of Sitting     78
Sussex     83
'Thank God for Brighton!'     87
The Picturesque Landscape: J. M. W. Turner at Petworth House     98
Trees and Dreams: Edward James in West Dean     103
Sculptures in the Woods: Heading for Goodwood     105
Uppark: An Orgy of Restoration     109
Art in the Cathedral: Chichester     111
Catholics and Other Traitors: Arundel Castle     116
Glyndebourne: Picnics and Operas     122
Virginia Woolf in Rodmell     125
Charleston Farmhouse: Bloomsbury in the Country     129
Rye: Town on Hill, Painter from Hell     134
Hastings: The Conquest     137
Surrey     141
Magna Carta and the Devils of Chaldon     142
High Schools and Fast Riders: From Claremont to Epsom     144
Box Hill: Picnics and Poetry     149
From Nonsuch to Sutton: Dream Houses, Madhouses     152
Death in Wonderland: Lewis Carroll in Guildford     159
Moor Park or the Love of a Private Tutor     162
Hermit Wanted: Painshill Park     166
Edwin Lutyens: Country Houses for the Leisured Classes     169
Queen of the Flowerbeds: Gertrude Jekyll     179
Hampshire     185
Jane Austen's Tea Table and Wellington's False Teeth: From Chawton to Stratfield Saye      187
Crusade against War: Stanley Spencer in Burghclere     192
Andrew Lloyd Webber: A Museum for the King of the Musical     196
The City Beneath the Cornfields: The Romans in Silchester     198
Portsmouth and Southampton: The Great Ports     201
Netley Abbey: What To Do With Ruins     206
England's Old Capital: Winchester     209
New Forest: Where the Wild Ponies Are     219
The Beautiful Bodies of Beaulieu     220
Isle of Wight     223
Cowes Week: The Kaiser Makes Himself Unpopular     223
Osborne House: How Victorian was Victoria?     225
Freshwater: Mrs Cameron's Camera     228
Kings and Queens of England     235
Glossary of Architectural Terms     237
Further Reading     238
Some Practical Hints A-Z     243
Places to See, with Opening Times     249
Hotels and Restaurants     281
Events and Local Customs     286
Picture Credits     288
Index     289