The Great North Road, the Old Mail Road to Scotland: London to York. Charles G. Harper

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СКАЧАТЬ moors, filled with those who prefer the road, on such terms, to the railway. From being something in the nature of a lonely highway, the Great North Road has thus become a very much travelled one. In this way, some of its circumstances have changed remarkably, and old-time comfortable wayside inns that seemed to have been ruined for all time with the coming of railways and the passing of the coaches have wakened to a newer life. Chief among these is the “Bell” on Barnby Moor, just north of Retford. The story of its revival is a romance. Closed about 1845, and converted into a farm-house, no one would have cared to predict its revival as an inn. But as such it was reopened, chiefly for the use of motorists, in 1906, and there it is to-day.

      But, apart from the tarred and asphalted condition of the actual roadway in these times, the route, all the way between London, York and Edinburgh, looks much the same as it did. Only, where perhaps one person might then know it thoroughly, from end to end, a hundred are well acquainted with the way and its features. It is for those many who now know the Great North Road that this new edition is prepared, giving the story of the long highway between the two capitals.

      CHARLES G. HARPER.

      April, 1922.

THE GREAT NORTH ROAD

       Table of Contents

      LONDON TO YORK

	MILES
Islington (the “Angel”)	1¼
Highgate Archway	4¼
East End, Finchley	5¾
Brown’s Wells, Finchley Common (“Green Man”)	7
Whetstone	9¼
Greenhill Cross	10¼
Barnet	11¼
Hadley Green	12
Ganwick Corner (“Duke of York”)	13
Potter’s Bar	14¼
Little Heath Lane	15¼
Bell Bar (“Swan”)	17¼
Hatfield	19¾
Stanborough	21½
Lemsford Mills (cross River Lea)	22¼
Digswell Hill (cross River Mimram)	23¼
Welwyn	25¼
Woolmer Green	27¼
Broadwater	29½
Stevenage	31½
Graveley	33½
Baldock	37½
Biggleswade (cross River Ivel)	45¼
Lower Codicote	46¾
Beeston Cross (cross River Ivel)	48¼
Girlford	49¼
Tempsford (cross River Ouse)	51
Wyboston	54
Eaton Socon	55¼
Cross Hall	56¾
Diddington	60
Buckden	61¼
Brampton Hut	63¾
Alconbury	66¼
Alconbury Weston	67
Alconbury Hill (“Wheatsheaf”)	68
Sawtry St. Andrews	71½
Stilton	75½
Norman Cross	76
Kate’s Cabin	79½
Water Newton	81¼
Sibson	82
Stibbington (cross River Nene)	83¾
Wansford	84
Stamford Baron (cross River Welland)	89
Stamford	89½
Great Casterton	91½
Stretton	96
Greetham (“New Inn”)	97½
North Witham (“Black Bull”)	100½
Colsterworth	102½
Great Ponton	106¾
Spitalgate Hill	109¾
Grantham	110¼
Great Gonerby	112
Foston	116
Long Bennington	118¼ СКАЧАТЬ В начало < 1 2 3 4 5 6 > В конец