Early Carriages and Roads

by Sir Walter Gilbey

Transcriber’s Notes

Hyphenation has been standardised.

Footnotes were moved to the ends of the text they pertain to and numbered in one continuous sequence.

GOING TO BURY FAIR.

From Engraving, A.D. 1750.

EARLY CARRIAGES
AND
ROADS

BY
SIR WALTER GILBEY, Bart.

ILLUSTRATED

London

VINTON & CO., Ltd., 9, New Bridge Street, E.C.

1903

The use of carriages, coaches and wheeled conveyances have had an intimate relationship with the social life of English people from an early period in history.

Many instructive books have appeared on the subject of carriages generally, but these have been for the most part written by experts in the art of coach and carriage building.

In this publication, attention has been given to the early history of wheeled conveyances in England and their development up to recent times.

Elsenham Hall, Essex.

April, 1903.