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

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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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The Brighton Road: Old Times and New on a Classic Highway.
The Portsmouth Road, and its Tributaries: To-day and in Days of Old.
The Dover Road: Annals of an Ancient Turnpike.
The Bath Road: History, Fashion, and Frivolity on an Old Highway.
The Exeter Road: The Story of the West of England Highway.
The Great North Road: The Old Mail Road to Scotland. Two Vols.
The Norwich Road: An East Anglian Highway.
The Holyhead Road: The Mail-Coach Road to Dublin. Two Vols.
Cycle Rides Round London.
The Oxford, Gloucester, and Milford Haven Road.    [In the Press.