. The Bath road : history, fashion, & frivolity on an old highway. Horses; Bath Road (England); England -- Description and travel; England -- Social life and customs; genealogy. 98 THE BATH ROAD side. A fine avenue of elms shades the road, and ahead is the cramped street of Colnbrook witli its mellowed red-brick houses and bright red-tiled roofs. Colnbrook street is narrow to a degree, and it is surprising how the many coaches that used to come. THE COUNTY BOUNDARY. tearing through at all hours of day and night managed to escape accidents. There is reason for this narrowness, for Colnbrook
. The Bath road : history, fashion, & frivolity on an old highway. Horses; Bath Road (England); England -- Description and travel; England -- Social life and customs; genealogy. 98 THE BATH ROAD side. A fine avenue of elms shades the road, and ahead is the cramped street of Colnbrook witli its mellowed red-brick houses and bright red-tiled roofs. Colnbrook street is narrow to a degree, and it is surprising how the many coaches that used to come. THE COUNTY BOUNDARY. tearing through at all hours of day and night managed to escape accidents. There is reason for this narrowness, for Colnbrook was originally built upon a stone causeway across the marshes of the Colne, and nowhere else were there to be found solid foundations. The original causeway may possibly have been Roman, for this is said to have been the station of Ad Pontes, described by Antoninus in his Itineraries. Staines, however, is more likely the site of it. Colnbrook is probably the best example of a decayed coaching-town now to be found in the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Harper, Charles G. (Charles George), 1863-1943. London : Chapman & Hall, Limited
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