Crossword-Solution: MILLAND 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Some years ago, one who was familiar with the country-side said, while standing on the tower of Milland new church:--"Within a circle of twelve miles from here there are more brains than within any other country district in England," and if we read _quality_ for quantity, I think he was right.

Long may the pleasant white face of the "Anchor" be turned towards the village street, and, friend Peake, may your shadow, with the grateful shade of the glorious chestnut tree that fronts your hostelry, never grow less! XXVI [Sidenote: _MILLAND_] Leaving Liphook, where, in the coaching revival of the '70's, Captain Hargreaves' "Rocket" coach between London and Portsmouth stopped forty minutes for lunch, we take to the road again, and come presently to Milland Common.

The Sussex and Hampshire borders have, indeed, followed the road nearly all the way from Milland, but now we plunge directly into Hants.

Report says that when he came to Rake to settle down, some twelve or thirteen years back--I being but an infant in arms,--he did gain a lasting reputation by outmatching one Caleb James, a notorious bully, at his own game, breaking his pate with his own staff on the roadside hard by Milland Church.