OLD ROAR.
In the centre of a thick wood, about two miles to the north-west of Hastings, is a fall of water known by the name of the " Old Roar ;" it is a small stream which rises a considerable distance up the glen, and runs unnoticed till it arrives at a rocky precipice, over which it falls perpendicularly forty feet into the basin below. The situation is wild and romantic, the best view of it is to be obtained by descending the narrow path on the left hand before you arrive at the fall ; it is very steep and difficult either to ascend or descend, and few ladies venture more than half way down ; after long heavy rains, a large body of water tumbles over with a great roar that is heard at a considerable distance. About one hundred yards above is another fall, known by the appellation of Glen Roar, but it is so difficult to force away through the thick underwood, that it is very seldom visited ; the fall is about fifteen or twenty feet. The most pleasant walk to or from the fall is through the vale of the hop gardens .
HOLLINGTON CHURCH
is distant from Hastings three miles and a-half, and is remarkable for its being situated in the middle of a wood, not having a house within a quarter of a mile of it. It is a very ancient structure, but when or by whom it was built is unknown. On the 16th September, 1834, a paper, on which the following simple lines were written in pencil, was found on a tombstone by the Rev. H. J. Rush, the vicar.
" Humble house of prayer,
Let my soul thy silence share ;
With no thoughtless step I tread
These sheltered precincts of the dead.
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