HOLMSDALE, (Surrey) or HOLMWARD, is a vale beneath Box-Hill, of several ms. in length, as far as Kent; in the woody part
of which are often found out-lying red deer. 'Tis now overgrown with furz, and used to produce such quantities of
strawberries, that they were carried to Mt. by horseloads. 'Tis said, that this place was, in ancient days, the retreat of
the native Britons, whom the Romans could never drive out; and that it also sheltered the Saxons from the Danes, who were
routed here, in the time of Edw. the elder, by the Kentish men; which gave occasion to the following distich. " This is
Holmsdale, " Never conquer'd, never shall. This country, though wild still, and with the same barren aspect in many places
as it had 1000 years ago, yet in others it is cultivated, and has roads passable enough in the summer quite through it on
every side, the woods being in a great measure cleared