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

Chapter 4: SEPARATE PLATES
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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.

SEPARATE PLATES

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The Norwich Mail in a Thunderstorm on Thetford Heath. (From a Print after J. Pollard) Frontispiece
The Norwich Stage, about 1790. (From a Painting by an Artist unknown) 5
The “Expedition,” Newmarket and Norwich Stage, about 1798. (From the Painting by Cordery) 9
Rye House 21
The “Eagle,” Snaresbrook: the Norwich Mail passing, 1832. (From a Print after J. Pollard) 41
The “White Hart,” Woodford. (From a Drawing by P. Palfrey) 45
Birthplace of Cecil Rhodes 59
Henry Gilbey 63
The “Crown,” Hockerill, demolished 1903.
(From a Drawing by P. Palfrey)
67
The “White Bear,” Stansted. (From a Drawing by P. Palfrey) 71
The “Old Bell,” Stansted. (From a Drawing by P. Palfrey) 75
London Lane, Newport: where Charles the Second’s Route to Newmarket joined the Highway 85
The Devil’s Ditch and Newmarket Heath, looking towards Ely 125
Yard of the “White Hart,” Newmarket 147
Newmarket: the “Rutland Arms” 153
“Angel Hill,” Bury St. Edmunds 181
Mildenhall 195
Barton Mills 199
The “Nuns’ Bridges” on the Icknield Way, Thetford 217
The “Bell Inn,” Thetford, and St. Peter’s Church 221
Castle Hill, Thetford, in 1848. (From an old Print) 229
Wymondham 279
The “Unicorn,” Norwich and Cromer Coach. (From a Print after J. Pollard, 1830) 295
“St. Fay’s” 311
Blickling Hall 319
Cromer in 1830.(From a Print after T. Creswick, R.A.) 343
Cromer 349