The little parlour is wainscoted with the votive paintings--a village Diploma Gallery--of artists who have made the "Swan" their home.
Fittleworth has a dual existence.

In the south it is riparian and low, much given to anglers and visitors.

In the north it is high and sandy, with clumps of firs, living its own life and spreading gorse-covered commons at the feet of the walker.

Between its southern border and Bignor Park is a superb common of sand and heather, an inland paradise for children.
Petworth station and Petworth town are far from being the same thing, and there are few more fatiguing miles than that which separates them.

A 'bus, it is true, plies between, but it is one of those long, close prisons with windows that annihilate thought by their shattering unfixedness.