Through East Anglia in a Motor Car
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ELY AT EVENTIDE
NEW YORK: McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO. LONDON: METHUEN & CO. 1907
Few practical suggestions are needed by the motorist in East Anglia—a district not presenting many difficulties. Those which are deemed necessary are here prefixed to the whole body of the text.
ABBREVIATIONS
R. signifies that there is a garage capable of doing moderate repairs.
R. A. signifies that the facilities for repair are abundant.
P. signifies that petrol can be purchased, but it has not been considered needful to state this where the existence of a garage renders a supply of petrol certain.
Roads Cambridge to Newmarket, mostly flat—not good. Newmarket to Bury St. Edmunds, fair. Bury St. Edmunds to Ipswich, poor and very sinuous.
James Edmund Vincent
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THROUGH EAST ANGLIA IN A MOTOR CAR
J. E. VINCENT
WITH SIXTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR BY
FRANK SOUTHGATE, R.B.A.
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
INTRODUCTION
THROUGH EAST ANGLIA IN A MOTOR-CAR
CHAPTER I
Winter. [OXFORD] TO CAMBRIDGE, NEWMARKET, AND IPSWICH
CHAPTER II
Winter. IPSWICH TO NORWICH viâ WOODBRIDGE, BECCLES, LOWESTOFT, AND YARMOUTH
CHAPTER III
Winter. NORWICH TO LONDON BY ROMAN ROAD
CHAPTER IV
Spring. THROUGH THE HEART OF EAST ANGLIA
CHAPTER V
Spring. [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE
CHAPTER VI
LONDON, FELIXSTOWE—DUNWICH, FELIXSTOWE
FELIXSTOWE, BAWDSEY, WOODBRIDGE, IPSWICH, DUNMOW AND LONDON
CHAPTER VII
Late Summer. COLCHESTER AND EASTWARDS
CHAPTER VIII
COLCHESTER AND GAINSBOROUGH'S COUNTRY
CHAPTER IX
FROM COLCHESTER WESTWARDS—COGGESHALL, BRAINTREE, WITHAM, INGATESTONE, MARGARETTING, DANBURY HILL, MALDON, TIPTREE, MESSING, AND COLCHESTER
COLCHESTER TO THE EXTRAORDINARY "DENE-HOLES" AT GRAYS, ESSEX
CHAPTER X
In Spring. TROUBLES MADE EASY
CHAPTER XI
GREAT AMBITIONS CHEERFULLY RELINQUISHED. HARLESTON TO CROMER viâ BUNGAY, BECCLES, LOWESTOFT, GREAT YARMOUTH, CAISTER-BY-YARMOUTH, AND NORWICH
CHAPTER XII
A PRIORY—GREAT HOUSES AND THE FENS
CHAPTER XIII
FROM KING'S LYNN AS CENTRE
INDEX