. Coaching days & ways. Horses; Coaching (Transportation) -- England; England -- Social life and customs. The Green Man, Waltham. VL—THE YORK ROAD. There were two main roads to York in the old coaching days. The first of these was measured from Shoreditch, and went by way of Ware, Tottenham, and Waltham; Hatfield and Stevenage ; the second was measured from Hicks's Hall, and went by way of Barnet. At the Wheatsheaf Inn at Alconbury Hill, down in Huntingdonshire, these two roads to York became one and the same road ; but the Ware route was four miles one furlong the shorter of the two. When
. Coaching days & ways. Horses; Coaching (Transportation) -- England; England -- Social life and customs. The Green Man, Waltham. VL—THE YORK ROAD. There were two main roads to York in the old coaching days. The first of these was measured from Shoreditch, and went by way of Ware, Tottenham, and Waltham; Hatfield and Stevenage ; the second was measured from Hicks's Hall, and went by way of Barnet. At the Wheatsheaf Inn at Alconbury Hill, down in Huntingdonshire, these two roads to York became one and the same road ; but the Ware route was four miles one furlong the shorter of the two. When we want to go to York now we breakfast at half-past eight, if we are wise, and catch the ten o'clock Scotch express from King's Cross. Our grand- fathers did not breakfast at all ; not because they had no appetite at half-past eight, but because they had to start from High Holborn at half-past 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 Cuming, E. D. (Edward William Dirom), 1862-1941; Armour, G. D. (George Denholm), 1864-1949. [London] : Hodder and Stoughton
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