Coaching days and coaching ways . m* •••? ,«« m,«JMi|iWri ITfp ,lr<jriir,i«iin\ 32 . V. The Crown, Bawtry. again as he rides through Bawtry, which is 153 milesfrom London, as measured from Hickss Hall, and isalso where the Great North Road enters it may be well to mention that before Turpin got toBawtry he went through Newark, 124\ miles fromLondon, and 2h miles over the Nottinghamshire border—past Scarthing Moor inn (a posting-station in old daysbut where is it now ?), through Tuxford, where the RedLion was a famous inn in the coaching days—now asthe Newcastle Arms, and posti
Coaching days and coaching ways . m* •••? ,«« m,«JMi|iWri ITfp ,lr<jriir,i«iin\ 32 . V. The Crown, Bawtry. again as he rides through Bawtry, which is 153 milesfrom London, as measured from Hickss Hall, and isalso where the Great North Road enters it may be well to mention that before Turpin got toBawtry he went through Newark, 124\ miles fromLondon, and 2h miles over the Nottinghamshire border—past Scarthing Moor inn (a posting-station in old daysbut where is it now ?), through Tuxford, where the RedLion was a famous inn in the coaching days—now asthe Newcastle Arms, and posting-house not unknown tofame—and so on past East Retford and Barnby Moor THE YORK ROAD 319 inn 1471 miles from London to the bourne where weleft him. And from Bawtry the roads to York diverge—themain and mail road going by Doncastcr, Ferrybridge, andTadcaster into our terminus : the lower road going byThorne, Selby, and Cawood. And Turpin took thelower road. And here the first signs of calamity beganto overtake him. His mortal pursuers seem long since
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