| London to Manchester | |
|---|---|
| MILES | |
London (General Post Office) to |
|
Islington (the “Angel”) |
1¼ |
Highgate Archway |
4¼ |
East End, Finchley |
5¾ |
Brown’s Wells, Finchley Common (“Green Man”) |
7 |
North Finchley: “Tally-ho Corner” |
7½ |
Whetstone |
9¼ |
Greenhill Cross |
10¼ |
Barnet |
11¼ |
South Mimms |
14½ |
Ridge Hill |
16 |
London Colney |
17½ |
(Cross River Colne.) |
|
St. Albans (“Peahen”) |
20¾ |
Redbourne |
25 |
Friar’s Wash |
27½ |
Markyate |
29 |
Dunstable (“Crown”) |
33½ |
Hockliffe |
37½ |
Woburn |
42 |
Woburn Sands |
43¾ |
Wavendon |
45¼ |
Broughton |
47½ |
| 50½ | |
(Cross River Ouse.) |
|
Lathbury |
51¼ |
Gayhurst |
53¼ |
Stoke Goldington |
55 |
Eakley Lane |
56½ |
Horton |
59 |
Piddington |
59¼ |
Hackleton |
60 |
Queen’s Cross |
64 |
Northampton (All Saints’ Church) |
65¼ |
Kingsthorpe |
67 |
Brixworth |
71¾ |
Lamport |
74¼ |
(Level Crossing, Lamport Station.) |
|
Maidwell |
75¼ |
Kelmarsh |
76¾ |
Clipston Station |
78¾ |
Oxendon |
79¼ |
(Cross River Welland.) |
|
Market Harborough |
82 |
(Cross Union Canal.) |
|
Kibworth |
87¾ |
Great Glen |
90¾ |
Oadby |
93 |
Leicester |
96¾ |
Belgrave |
98½ |
(Cross River Soar.) |
|
Mountsorrel |
103¾ |
Quorndon |
105¼ |
Loughborough (“Bull’s Head”) |
107¾ |
Dishley |
109¾ |
| 110½ | |
Kegworth |
113¾ |
Cavendish Bridge |
117¼ |
(Cross River Trent.) |
|
Shardlow |
117¾ |
Alvaston |
121¾ |
Osmaston |
122¾ |
(Cross Derby Canal.) |
|
Derby (Market Place) |
124¾ |
Mackworth |
127¼ |
Kirk Langley |
129 |
Brailsford |
131½ |
Ashbourne |
137¾ |
Hanging Bridge |
139¼ |
(Cross River Dove.) |
|
Swinescote |
140¾ |
Milk Hill Gate |
144¼ |
Waterhouses |
145 |
Winkhill |
146¾ |
Bottom Inn (“Green Man”) |
148 |
Bradnop |
150¾ |
Low Hill |
151½ |
Leek (Market Place) |
152½ |
Pool End |
154¼ |
Rushton Marsh |
157½ |
(Cross River Dane.) |
|
Bosley |
160 |
Macclesfield |
165½ |
Titherington |
166 |
Flash |
167¾ |
Hope Green |
171¾ |
Poynton |
172½ |
| 174¾ | |
Stockport |
177½ |
(Cross River Mersey.) |
|
Heaton Norris |
179 |
Heaton Chapel |
179¾ |
Levenshulme |
180½ |
Grindley Marsh |
181½ |
Longsight |
182 |
Ardwick Green |
183¼ |
(Cross Manchester and Ashton-under-Lyne Canal.) |
|
Manchester (St. Ann’s Square) |
184¾ |
| SEPARATE PLATES | |
|---|---|
The Mail Change (By J. Herring) |
Frontispiece |
| PAGE | |
The Glasgow Mail, about 1830 (After J. Pollard) |
7 |
The Glasgow Mail leaving the Yard of the “Bull and Mouth” (After C. Cooper Henderson) |
17 |
The “Courier,” Manchester, Carlisle and Glasgow Coach (After C. B. Newhouse) |
27 |
Mails leaving the Yard of the “Swan with two Necks,” 1834 (After J. Pollard) |
35 |
The “Manchester Telegraph,” 1834 (After Robert Havell) |
39 |
Islington Green, 1825 |
113 |
The Manchester Mail changing Horses at the “Old White Lion,” Finchley, 1835 (After James Pollard) |
117 |
Queen Eleanor Cross (From a photograph taken before the restoration of 1884) |
181 |
Northampton: Market Place and All Saints’ Church |
191 |
Market Harborough |
213 |
Mountsorrel |
249 |
| 255 | |
Stage-Coach Travelling, 1828 (Derby and Sheffield) (After J. Pollard) |
295 |
Church Street, Ashbourne |
313 |
The Manchester Mails passing one another near Ashbourne (After J. Pollard) |
327 |
Macclesfield, from the Road to Stockport |
343 |
| ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT | |
Monken Hadley Church |
120 |
The Fire-Pot, Monken Hadley |
122 |
The Gateway, Dyrham Park |
124 |
The “Fleur-de-Lis” |
127 |
Relics of the Saxon Church in the North Transept, St. Albans |
131 |
Lord Grimthorpe |
138 |
Shrine of St. Alban and Tomb of Duke Humphrey |
141 |
Gorhambury |
151 |
Markyate Cell |
153 |
Woburn Abbey |
161 |
Woburn |
163 |
Newport Pagnell |
167 |
Lathbury Church |
170 |
Gayhurst |
172 |
The “George and Dragon,” Eakley Lane |
173 |
Horton Inn |
175 |
Piddington Church |
177 |
Interior, Church of the Holy Sepulchre |
195 |
Brixworth Church |
201 |
Lamport Church |
205 |
Paxton |
208 |
| 209 | |
St. Nicholas and the Roman Wall |
225 |
The Roman Milestone |
227 |
St. Margaret’s |
231 |
Trinity Hospital Porridge-Pot |
234 |
St. Mary’s |
235 |
In the Courtyard, the Old Town Hall |
241 |
Church and Cavern, Woodhouse Eaves |
253 |
From the Monument to John Farnham |
258 |
Gotham |
265 |
The Causeway, Swarkestone Bridge |
268 |
Swarkestone Bridge |
273 |
“The Balcony,” Swarkestone |
277 |
Cavendish Bridge |
280 |
The Trent, and Cavendish Bridge, from Shardlow |
282 |
Elvaston Castle |
285 |
Courtyard of the “Bell” Inn |
291 |
“Young Men and Maidens” |
299 |
All Saints’ |
301 |
St. Alkmund’s |
303 |
St. Mary’s Bridge |
305 |
Penelope Boothby’s Monument |
316 |
The “Green Man and Black’s Head,” Ashbourne |
322 |
Hanging Bridge |
325 |
Swinscoe |
330 |
Waterhouses |
331 |
Bottom Inn: The “Green Man” |
332 |
Leek |
334 |
Prestbury |
345 |
The “Village of Hazel Grove” |
351 |
Old Town House of the Ardernes, Stockport |
356 |