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The Great North Road, the Old Mail Road to Scotland: London to York

Chapter 41: FOOTNOTES.
By Charles G. Harper
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A descriptive guide traces the historic highway between London and York, combining practical route notes, mile-by-mile itineraries and illustrated topographical sketches. Chapters explain road construction, coach-making, mail services, stage-coach timings, posting charges and travel costs, alongside local anecdotes about inns, tolls and notable landmarks. The narrative follows successive stages and villages, records cycling and early motor touring, and considers the impact of railways on coaching life. Antiquarian observations and reproductions of old prints and signs punctuate a travel-historical account intended for tourists and readers interested in the evolution of a major northbound thoroughfare.

 

Railways—37, 46, 75, 82, 93, 125, 174, 228, 234, 236

Great Northern, 174, 228, 236

London and Birmingham  (now London and North-Western) 75

Midland, 234

North Eastern, 236

Ranskill, 216

Retford, 208, 210–213

Riccall, 242

Roman Roads, 2–4

Rossington Bridge, 226

 

St. Martin’-le-Grand, 2, 14, 25–27

Sandy, 108

Sawtry St. Andrews, 124, 176

Sawtry Abbey, 124

Scarthing Moor, 205–207

Scott, Sir Walter, 51, 162, 164, 190, 192, 198, 204

Scrooby, 216–220

Selby, 238–242

Shaftholme Junction, 236

Sibson, 136

“Six Hills,” The, Stevenage, 94–96

South Muskham, 203, 205

Stamford, 140, 145–153

Stanborough, 87

Stangate Hill, 124

Statute Labour, 9

Stevenage, 2 93–96, 101–105

Stibbington, 136

Stilton, 9, 124–128

Stoke Rochford, 178

Stonegate Hole, 176

Stretton, 154, 161

Sutton-upon-Trent, 205

 

“Tally-ho Corner” 66

Telford, James, 10, 13, 31

Tempsford, 109

Thornhaugh, 140

Tickencote, 154

“Tingey’s Corner,” 108

Tophall, 226

Toplar’s Hill, 107

Torworth, 216

Trent, River, 203–205

Turnpike Acts, 9

Turnpike Gates, 10, 58, 59, 73–75, 82, 87, 105, 209, 218, 242

Turpin’s Oak, 70

Tuxford, 205–208

 

Wansford, 134

Water Newton, 133–140

Welwyn, 2, 88–91, 116

West Markham, 208

Weston, 206

Whetstone, 72

Whittington, Sir Richard, 53–56

Witham Common, 158, 161, 175

Woolmer Green, 93

Woolsthorpe Manor-House, 176

Wyboston, 109

Yaxley Barracks, 129–132

York, 244–246

Yorkshire, 220–223

Young, Revd. Edward, 90

FOOTNOTES.

[40]  These are pre-war (1914–18) prices.

[117]  He was baptised in the church of St. Bride, Fleet Street, according to a discovery more recently made; and he would thus appear really to have been a Londoner.

[165]  Tokens in imitation of the old guineas, which bore on their reverse the George and Dragon device now used on our modern sovereigns.  The token represented the king on horseback (the Hanoverian White Horse), with the legend “To Hanover.”