Fernhurst

_The Nation_ for six a correspondence filling three or four pages an issue in which schoolmaster after schoolmaster asserted that whatever might be true of "Fernhurst", at his school it was all very different.

The Loom of Youth Alec Waugh 1939

Above Great Common is a superb open space nearly six hundred feet high, with gorse bushes advantageously placed to give shelter while one studies the Fernhurst valley, the Haslemere heights and, blue in the distance, the North Downs.

Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

While at Fernhurst it is well to walk on to Blackdown, the best way, perhaps, being to take the lane to the right about half a mile beyond the village, and make for the hill across country.

Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

Fernhurst, beautifully named, is in an exquisite situation among the minor eminences of the Haslemere range, but the builder has been busy here, and the village is not what it was.

Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

Henley, however, no longer sees the travellers that once it did, for the coach road, which of old climbed perilously through it, has been diverted in a curve through the hanger, and now sweeps into Fernhurst by way of Henley Common.

Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

On the eastern side of Fernhurst, to which we may now return, a mile on the way to Lurgashall, was once Verdley Castle; but it is now a castle no more, merely a ruined heap.

Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

So it was the system that was at fault, not Fernhurst.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 21, 1917 Various

The floor of the big school is made of exquisitely polished oak, and is one of the glories of Fernhurst.

The Loom of Youth Alec Waugh 1939

Gordon took the interests of the House and not Fernhurst as the standard by which to judge all his thoughts and actions.

The Loom of Youth Alec Waugh 1939

Fernhurst life, bubbling over with the ideas of the rising generation, intolerant of prejudice and tradition, clamorous for reform.

The Loom of Youth Alec Waugh 1939