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A linear travelogue traces the old highway between Manchester and Glasgow, combining route-by-route description with historical notes, antiquarian lore, and practical mileage. It records urban and rural landscapes, coaching inns, bridges, churches, castles, and industrial features, and recalls mail-coach and stagecoach traditions alongside local anecdotes and place-name stories. Plates, maps, and sketches illustrate landmarks while brief essays on architecture, road-building, and social customs contextualize the passage. The result blends vivid scene-setting and topographical detail with historical research to portray the road's character and evolving role in regional life.

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Title: The Manchester and Glasgow Road, Volume 2 (of 2)

Author: Charles G. Harper

Release date: December 16, 2018 [eBook #58482]

Language: English

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THE MANCHESTER AND
GLASGOW ROAD

CONTENTS

WORKS BY CHARLES G. HARPER

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.

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

The Newmarket, Bury, Thetford, and Cromer Road: Sport and History on an East Anglian Turnpike.

The Oxford, Gloucester, and Milford Haven Road: The Ready Way to South Wales. Two Vols.

The Brighton Road: Speed, Sport, and History on the Classic Highway.

The Hastings Road and the “Happy Springs of Tunbridge.” Cycle Rides Round London.

A Practical Handbook of Drawing for Modern Methods of Reproduction.

Stage-Coach and Mail in Days of Yore. Two Vols.

The Ingoldsby Country: Literary Landmarks of “The Ingoldsby Legends.”

The Hardy Country: Literary Landmarks of the Wessex Novels.

The Dorset Coast.

The South Devon Coast.

The Old Inns of Old England. Two Vols.

Love in the Harbour: a Longshore Comedy.

Rural Nooks Round London (Middlesex and Surrey).

Haunted Houses: Tales of the Supernatural.

The North Devon Coast.[In the Press.

WAITING TO CHANGE.

[By J. F. Herring.

THE MANCHESTER AND GLASGOW ROAD

THIS WAY TO GRETNA GREEN

By CHARLES G. HARPER

ILLUSTRATED BY THE AUTHOR, AND FROM OLD-TIME PRINTS AND PICTURES

Vol. II.—MANCHESTER TO GLASGOW

LONDON
CHAPMAN & HALL, LTD.
1907


PRINTED AND BOUND BY HAZELL, WATSON AND VINEY, LD., LONDON AND AYLESBURY.