THE MANCHESTER AND GLASGOW ROAD

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

Newport Pagnell

  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

Hathern

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

Hazel Grove

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

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List of Illustrations

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

The Chase and the Road (After H. Atken)

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

Monument to Judge Nichols

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