Dorking

Dorking, a charmingly-placed town of Surrey at the foot of Box Hill, 24 miles S.W. of London. In the neighbourhood is the estate of Deepdene, where "Anastasius" Hope lived and Disraeli wrote Coninysby, and a pretty walk through the estate leads to Leith Hill (960 feet), which commands a view of the Weald and a glimpse of the sea through a gap in the South Downs. There is also a pleasant walk along a ridge of the Downs to Guildford. Many visitors look for the "Markis of Granby" of Pickwickian renown, but in vain, since Dickens apparently adopts the sign in a Pickwickian sense.