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The
GREAT NORTH ROAD

The Old Mail Road to Scotland

By CHARLES G. HARPER

LONDON TO YORK

Illustrated by the Author, and from old-time
Prints and Pictures

London :
CECIL PALMER
Oakley House , Bloomsbury Street , W.C.

First published in 1901
Second and Revised edition, 1922

Printed in Great Britain by C. TINLING & Co., Ltd .,
53, Victoria Street, Liverpool
and 187, Fleet Street, London.

In Loving Memory
OF
Herman Moroney

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Attributed to William Penn .

PREFACE.

When the original edition of the Great North Road was publishedin 1901the motorcar was yet a new thing. It had, in November, 1896, been given by Act of Parliament the freedom of the roads; but, so far, the character of the nations traffic had been comparatively little changed. People would still turn and gaze, interested, at a mechanically-propelled vehicle; and few were those folk who had journeyed the entire distance between London and Edinburgh in one of them. For motor-cars were still, really, in more or less of an experimental stage; and on any long journey you were never sure of finishing by car what you had begun. Also, the speed possible was not great enough to render such a longjourney exhilarating to modern ideas. It is true that, the year before, theAutomobile Club of Great Britain and Ireland, not yet become theRoyal Automobile Club, had in its now forgotten role of aSociety of Encouragementplanned and carried out aThousand Miles Tour, which had Edinburgh as its most northern point; but it was a very special effort. Those who took part in it are not likely to forget the occasion.

To-day, all that is changed. Every summer, every autumn, sees large numbers of touring automobiles on the way to Scotland and the 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 theBellon 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

LONDON TO YORK

MILES
Islington (the Angel)
Highgate Archway
East End, Finchley
Browns Wells, Finchley Common (Green Man)
Whetstone
Greenhill Cross
Barnet
Hadley Green
Ganwick Corner (Duke of York)
Potters Bar
Little Heath Lane
Bell Bar (Swan)
Hatfield
Stanborough
Lemsford Mills (cross River Lea)
Digswell Hill (cross River Mimram)
Welwyn
Woolmer Green
Broadwater
Stevenage
Graveley
Baldock
Biggleswade (cross River Ivel)
Lower Codicote
Beeston Cross (cross River Ivel)
Girlford
Tempsford (cross River Ouse)
Wyboston
Eaton Socon
Cross Hall
Diddington
Buckden
Brampton Hut
Alconbury
Alconbury Weston
Alconbury Hill (Wheatsheaf)
Sawtry St. Andrews
Stilton
Norman Cross
Kates Cabin
Water Newton
Sibson
Stibbington (cross River Nene)
Wansford
Stamford Baron (cross River Welland)
Stamford
Great Casterton
Stretton
Greetham (New Inn)
North Witham (Black Bull)
Colsterworth
Great Ponton
Spitalgate Hill
Grantham
Great Gonerby
Foston
Long Bennington
Shire Bridge (cross Shire Dyke)
Balderton (cross River Devon)
Newark (cross River Trent)
South Muskham
North Muskham
Cromwell
Carlton-on-Trent
Sutton-on-Trent
Weston
Scarthing Moor
Tuxford

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