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SCOLE WHITE HART.

THE NORWICH
ROAD: AN EAST
ANGLIAN HIGHWAY

By Charles G. Harper

Author of "The Brighton Road," "The Portsmouth Road,"
"The Dover Road," "The Bath Road,"
"The Exeter Road," and "The Great North Road."

Illustrated by the Author, and from
Old-Time Prints and Pictures.

London: Chapman & Hall ltd. 1901

PREFACE

T HE author of a little book published in 1818, called A Journey to London , which is nearly all "London" with very little "journey," remarks that "it is as uncommon for a book to go into the world without a preface, as a man without a hat. They are both convenient coverings." Here, then, is the customary covering.

Introducing this, the seventh in a series of books telling the story of our great highways, it may perhaps be as well to re-state the methods used, and objects aimed at. The chief intention is to provide a readable book which shall avoid the style either of a Guide-Book or a History. It is the better fortune to be in the reader's hands than in the dusty seclusion of those formidable works, the County Histories; or disregarded among the guide-books of forgotten holidays. To the antiquary it will, of course, be obvious that this and other volumes of the series "contain many omissions," as the Irish reviewer said; but such things as find no place here have, as a general rule, been disregarded because they not only do not help the Story of the Road along, but rather hinder its progression.

The Norwich Road , in its one hundred and twelve miles, passes by many an historic site and through districts distinguished for their quiet pastoral beauty. In being historic it is not singular, for, as Oliver Wendell Holmes very truly said, "England is one vast museum," and the old road would be remarkable indeed, that, like Canning's " Needy Knife Grinder ," had no story to tell. It is, however, in the especial characteristics of East Anglian scenery, speech, customs, and architecture that this road stands apart and is highly individualised. "East Anglia" is no merely arbitrary and meaningless term, as those who travel it, if only on the highway, will speedily find.

But this shall be no trumpet-blast; nor indeed do the charms of Eastern England require such a fanfare, for who has not yet heard of that lovely valley of the Stour, so widely known as "Constable's Country," by whose exquisite water-meadows and shady lanes the old turnpike passes? Scenery such as this; windmills, cornfields, tall elms, winding rivers, and commons populous with geese and turkeys, are typical of the Norwich Road , which may, with this introduction, now be left to recommend itself.

CHARLES G. HARPER.

Petersham, Surrey ,

October 1901.

List of Illustrations

SEPARATE PLATES

Scole White Hart

PAGE

Aldgate Pump. (From a drawing by T. Hosmer Shepherd, 1854)

Aldgate , 1820

The "Old Red Lion," Whitechapel, where Turpin shot
Matthew King. (From a drawing by T. Hosmer
Shepherd, 1854)

Whitechapel Road in the Coaching Age

Mile End Turnpike , 1813. (After Rowlandson)

Romford

Mountnessing Windmill

Ingatestone in Coaching Days. (From an Old Print)

New Hall Lodges

Chipping Hill

" Three Blind 'Uns and a Bolter. " (From a Print
after H. Alken)

Colchester

The Vale of Dedham. (After Constable)

Spring: Suffolk Ploughlands. (After Constable)

The Cornfield. (After Constable)

The Old Sign of Scole White Hart

Staircase in the "White Hart"

Dickleburgh

A Disputed Pasturage

Long Stratton

Newton Flotman

Norwich, from Mousehold Heath

Norwich Market Place

ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT

Vignette

PAGE

Preface

List of Illustrations: London Stone

The Runaway 'Prentice

Yard of the "Bull," Leadenhall Street. (From a drawing
by T. Hosmer Shepherd, 1854

Front of the "Saracen's Head," Aldgate: Present Day

Yard of the "Saracen's Head" in Coaching Days. (From
a drawing by T. Hosmer Shepherd, 1854

Yard of the "Saracen's Head": Present Day

The Yard of the "Bull," Whitechapel, in Coaching Days

The Norwich Coach at Christmastide. (After Robert
Seymour, 1835

Whitechapel Old Church

Bow

Seven Kings

Whalebone House

Entrance to Romford

Old Toll-house, Puttels Bridge

The "Fleece," Brook Street

The Martyr's Tree, Brentwood

Yard of the "White Hart," Brentwood

Shenfield

Mountnessing Church

The Gatehouse, Ingatestone Hall

At Margaretting

The "Good Woman" Sign

The Bridge: Entrance to Chelmsford

The Conduit, Chelmsford

Tindal's Statue

The "Three Cups" Sign

Springfield Church

Boreham

The "Angel," Kelvedon

Birthplace of Spurgeon

Near Mark's Tey

Lexden

The Grand Staircase, Colchester Castle

Old Man Trap, Colchester Castle

Colchester Castle

Gun Hill

Old Toll-house, Stratford Bridge

Wolsey's Gateway

The "Lion and Lamb," Angel Lane

Sparrowe's House

The "Great White Horse"

Mockbeggar Hall

"Stonham Pie"

Near Brockford

"Thwaite Low House"

The "Cock," Thwaite

Long Stratton

Tasburgh

The Old Brick Pound

Caistor Camp

Norwich Snap

Norfolk Turkey, on his way to Leadenhall Market

THE ROAD TO NORWICH

MILES
London (Whitechapel Church) to Mile End	1
Stratford-le-Bow (Bow Church)	2
(Cross River Lea).
Stratford (Broadway)	4
Forest Gate	5
Manor Park	6
Ilford	6
(Cross River Roding).
Seven Kings	7
(Cross "Seven Kings' Watering," or Fillebrook).
Chadwell Heath	9
Romford	12
Hare Street	13
Puttels Bridge	15
(Cross Weald Brook).
Brook Street	16
Brentwood	18
Shenfield	19
Mountnessing Street	21
Ingatestone	23
Margaretting Street	25
Widford	27
(Cross River Wid or Ash).