The Great North Road, the Old Mail Road to Scotland: London to York. Charles G. Harper
looks much the same as it did. Only, where perhaps one person might then know it thoroughly, from end to end, a hundred are well acquainted with the way and its features. It is for those many who now know the Great North Road that this new edition is prepared, giving the story of the long highway between the two capitals.
CHARLES G. HARPER.
April, 1922.
THE GREAT NORTH ROAD
LONDON TO YORK
| MILES | |
| Islington (the “Angel”) | 1¼ |
| Highgate Archway | 4¼ |
| East End, Finchley | 5¾ |
| Brown’s Wells, Finchley Common (“Green Man”) | 7 |
| Whetstone | 9¼ |
| Greenhill Cross | 10¼ |
| Barnet | 11¼ |
| Hadley Green | 12 |
| Ganwick Corner (“Duke of York”) | 13 |
| Potter’s Bar | 14¼ |
| Little Heath Lane | 15¼ |
| Bell Bar (“Swan”) | 17¼ |
| Hatfield | 19¾ |
| Stanborough | 21½ |
| Lemsford Mills (cross River Lea) | 22¼ |
| Digswell Hill (cross River Mimram) | 23¼ |
| Welwyn | 25¼ |
| Woolmer Green | 27¼ |
| Broadwater | 29½ |
| Stevenage | 31½ |
| Graveley | 33½ |
| Baldock | 37½ |
| Biggleswade (cross River Ivel) | 45¼ |
| Lower Codicote | 46¾ |
| Beeston Cross (cross River Ivel) | 48¼ |
| Girlford | 49¼ |
| Tempsford (cross River Ouse) | 51 |
| Wyboston | 54 |
| Eaton Socon | 55¼ |
| Cross Hall | 56¾ |
| Diddington | 60 |
| Buckden | 61¼ |
| Brampton Hut | 63¾ |
| Alconbury | 66¼ |
| Alconbury Weston | 67 |
| Alconbury Hill (“Wheatsheaf”) | 68 |
| Sawtry St. Andrews | 71½ |
| Stilton | 75½ |
| Norman Cross | 76 |
| Kate’s Cabin | 79½ |
| Water Newton | 81¼ |
| Sibson | 82 |
| Stibbington (cross River Nene) | 83¾ |
| Wansford | 84 |
| Stamford Baron (cross River Welland) | 89 |
| Stamford | 89½ |
| Great Casterton | 91½ |
| Stretton | 96 |
| Greetham (“New Inn”) | 97½ |
| North Witham (“Black Bull”) | 100½ |
| Colsterworth | 102½ |
| Great Ponton | 106¾ |
| Spitalgate Hill | 109¾ |
| Grantham | 110¼ |
| Great Gonerby | 112 |
| Foston | 116 |
| Long Bennington | 118¼ |
| Shire Bridge (cross Shire Dyke) | 120½ |
| Balderton (cross River Devon) | 122¼ |
| Newark (cross River Trent) | 124½ |
| South Muskham | 127 |
| North Muskham | 128 |
| Cromwell | 130 |
| Carlton-on-Trent | 131½ |
| Sutton-on-Trent | 133 |
| Weston | 134¾ |