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The Newmarket, Bury, Thetford and Cromer Road / Sport and history on an East Anglian turnpike

Chapter 3: THE ROAD TO NEWMARKET, THETFORD, NORWICH, AND CROMER.
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A travel-historical survey of a major East Anglian highway, blending route-by-route mileages and practical itineraries with historical sketches, local anecdotes, and many illustrations. It chronicles coaching and mail services, inns and waystations, landscape features and antiquities, and incidents of weather, sport, and roadside life. Village and town memories, architectural notes, and stories of highwaymen and accidents are woven together to show how the thoroughfare influenced regional movement, commerce, and everyday experience across changing eras.

THE ROAD TO NEWMARKET, THETFORD,
NORWICH, AND CROMER.

London (General Post Office) to— MILES
Shoreditch Church
Cambridge Heath
Hackney Church
Lower Clapton 4
Lea Bridge
(Cross River Lea.)
Whip’s Cross
Snaresbrook (“The Eagle”) 8
Woodford (St. Mary’s Church) 9
Woodford Green
Woodford Wells (“Horse and Well” Inn) 10¼
Buckhurst Hill (“Bald-faced Stag”) 11
Loughton 13
Wake Arms 15
Epping 18
Thornwood Common 20¼
Potter Street
Harlow
(Cross River Stort: Stort Navigation, Harlow Wharf.)
24½
Sawbridgeworth 26¾
Spelbrook 28½
Thorley Street
(Cross River Stort.)
29½
Hockerill, Bishop Stortford 30½
Stansted Mountfitchet 33½
Ugley 35½
Quendon 36½
Newport
(Cross Wicken Water.)
39
Uttlesford Bridge, Audley End
(On right, Saffron Walden, 1½ mile; on left, ½ mile, Wendens Ambo.)
40¼
Littlebury 42¼
Little Chesterford (Cross River Cam.) 43¾
Great Chesterford 44½
Stump Cross 45¼
Pampisford Station, Bourn Bridge
(Cross Bourn Stream, or Linton River.)
48½
Six Mile Bottom
Level Crossing, Six Mile Bottom Station.)
54½
Devil’s Ditch 58½
Newmarket (Clock Tower) 60½
“Red Lodge” Inn
(Cross River Kennett.)
65½
Barton Mills
(Cross River Lark, Mildenhall, on left, 1 mile.)
69¾
Elveden 77
Thetford
(Cross Rivers Little Ouse and Thet.)
80¾
Larling Level Crossing 85¾
Larlingford
(Cross River Thet.)
88¾
Attleborough 94¾
Morley St. Peter Post Office 97
Wymondham 100¾
Hethersett 104¼
Cringleford
(Cross River Yare.)
106¾
Eaton 107¼
Norwich (loop road)
(Cross River Wensum.)
109¾
Upper Hellesdon 110½
Mile Cross 111
Horsham St. Faith 114¼
Newton St. Faith 115½
Stratton Strawless 117½
Hevingham 118
Marsham 120
Aylsham (loop road)
(Cross River Bure.)
121½
Ingworth 123½
Erpingham 125½
Hanworth Corner 126¾
Roughton 128½
Crossdale Street 131
Cromer 132
 
To Thetford, through Bury St. Edmunds.
 
Newmarket (Clock Tower) 61¾
Kentford (Cross River Kennett.) 66
Higham Station 68½
Saxham White Horse 71½
Risby 73
Bury St. Edmunds 75½
Fornham St. Martin 77½
Ingham 79¾
Seven Hills 81¾
Barnham 85½
Thetford 87¾

List of Illustrations