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A travel-historical narrative traces an old coaching highway from London's outskirts into the fenland, describing towns, villages, bridges, causeways and the marsh landscape while recalling coaching-era life and hazards such as snowstorms and highwaymen. Combining route-by-route commentary, antiquarian sketches and engraved illustrations, the text records milestones, inns, markets, waterways, ecclesiastical and civic monuments, and local anecdotes. Reflections on changing transport and the layered human stories embedded in the road emphasize how geography, commerce, and memory shaped regional character and everyday experience along this historic thoroughfare.

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Title: The Cambridge, Ely, and King's Lynn Road: The Great Fenland Highway

Author: Charles G. Harper

Release date: September 1, 2019 [eBook #60205]
Most recently updated: October 17, 2024

Language: English

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