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

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

       Table of Contents

      LONDON TO YORK


MILES
Islington (the “Angel”)
Highgate Archway
East End, Finchley
Brown’s Wells, Finchley Common (“Green Man”) 7
Whetstone
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
Shire Bridge (cross Shire Dyke) 120½
Balderton (cross River Devon) 122¼
Newark (cross River Trent) 124½
South Muskham 127
North Muskham 128
Cromwell 130
Carlton-on-Trent 131½
Sutton-on-Trent 133
Weston 134¾