Hastings and Neighbourhood

In this historical book, Walter Higgins describes Hastings and its neighborhood. Hastings is the gateway into an enchanted garden. Between the hills and the sea it lies—the most romantic province in this England of ours. Scarcely a place in it seems to belong to this present: from end to end it is built up almost entirely of memories. The very repetition of the names—Rye, Winchelsea, Pevensey, Battle, Bodiam, Herstmonceux—conjures up the past in all its magnificence and all its sadness.