The Cambridge, Ely, and King's Lynn Road: The Great Fenland Highway

by Charles G. Harper

	PAGE
Vignette: Eel-Spearing	[Title-page]
Preface	[vii]
List of Illustrations: Taking Toll	[xi]
The Cambridge, Ely, and King's Lynn Road	[1]
The Green Dragon, Bishopsgate Street, 1856 From a Drawing by T. Hosmer Shepherd.	[8]
The Four Swans, Bishopsgate Street, 1855 From a Drawing by T. Hosmer Shepherd.	[9]
Tottenham Cross	[38]
Balthazar Sanchez' Almshouses, Tottenham	[41]
Waltham Cross a hundred years ago	[59]
The Roman Urn, Cheshunt	[76]
Charles the First's Rocking-Horse	[79]
Clarkson's Monument	[99]
A Monumental Milestone	[111]
The Chequers, Fowlmere	[115]
West Mill	[118]
A Quaint Corner in Royston	[125]
Caxton Gibbet	[127]
The First Milestone from Cambridge	[139]
Hobson's Conduit	[141]
Hobson From a Painting in Cambridge Guildhall.	[162]
Market Hill, Cambridge	[167]
The Falcon, Cambridge	[168]
Interior of St. Sepulchre's Church	[169]
Cambridge Castle a hundred years ago	[171]
Landbeach	[181]
The Fens After Dugdale.	[191]
The Isle of Ely and district	[215]
Aldreth Causeway and the Isle of Ely	[218]
Upware Inn	[237]
Wicken Fen	[241]
Hodden Spade and Becket	[248]
Stretham	[254]
The West Front, Ely Cathedral	[265]
Ely Cathedral, from the Littleport Road	[289]
Littleport	[291]
The River Road, Littleport	[293]
The Ouse	[295]
Southery Ferry	[296]
Kett's Oak	[300]
Denver Hall	[301]
The Crown, Downham Market	[302]
The Castle, Downham Market	[303]
Hogge's Bridge, Stow Bardolph	[305]
The Lynn Arms, Setchey	[306]
The South Gates, Lynn	[308]
The Guildhall, Lynn	[314]
The Duke's Head, Lynn	[321]
Islington	[329]

THE ROAD TO CAMBRIDGE, ELY,
AND KING'S LYNN

London (Shoreditch Church) to—	MILES
Kingsland	1	½
Stoke Newington	2	½
Stamford Hill	3	¼
Tottenham High Cross	4	¼
Tottenham	5	¼
Upper Edmonton	6
Lower Edmonton	6	¾
Ponder's End	8	½
Enfield Highway	9	¼
Enfield Wash	10
Waltham Cross	11	½
Crossbrook Street	12
Turner's Hill	13
Cheshunt	13	¼
Cheshunt Wash	13	¾
Turnford	14
Wormley (cross New River)	14	¾
Broxbourne	15	¾
Hoddesdon	17
Great Amwell (cross New River and the Lea)	19	¼
Ware	21
Wade's Mill (cross River Rib)	23
High Cross	23	½
Collier's End	25
Puckeridge (cross River Rib)	26	¾
Braughing	27	¾
Quinbury	28	¾
Hare Street	30	¾
Barkway	35
Barley	36	¾
Fowlmere	42
Newton	44	¼
Hauxton (cross River Granta)	47	¾
Trumpington	48	½
Cambridge (Market Hill)	50	¾
To Cambridge, through Royston—
Puckeridge (cross River Rib)	26	¾
West Mill	29	¾
Buntingford	31
Chipping	32	½
Buckland	33	¾
Royston	37	¾
Melbourn	41	¼
Shepreth	43	¼
Foxton Station and Level Crossing	44
Harston	45	½
Hauxton (cross River Granta)	46	½
Trumpington	48	¾
Cambridge (Market Hill)	51
Milton	54
Landbeach	54	¾
Denny Abbey	58
Chittering	58	¾
Stretham Bridge (cross Great Ouse River)	61	¾
Stretham	63	¼
Thetford Level Crossing	64	½
Ely	67	½
Chettisham Station and Level Crossing	69	½
Littleport	72	½
Littleport Bridge (cross Great Ouse River)	73	½
Brandon Creek (cross Little Ouse River)	76	¾
Southery	78	¾
Modney Bridge (cross Sams Cut Drain)	80	¼
Hilgay (cross Wissey River)	81	¾
Fordham	82	¾
Denver	84
Downham Market	85	¼
Wimbotsham	86	½
Stow Bardolph	87	¼
South Runcton (cross River Nar)	89	¼
Setchey	92	¼
West Winch	93	¾
Hardwick Bridge	95	¼
King's Lynn	97	¼

The Cambridge Ely and King's Lynn Road

I

"Sister Anne, Sister Anne, do you see anyone coming?" asks Fatima in the story of Bluebeard. Clio, the Muse of History, shall be my Sister Anne. I hereby set her down in the beginnings of the Cambridge Road, bid her be retrospective, and ask her what she sees.

"I see," she says dreamily, like some medium or clairvoyant,—"I see a forest track leading from the marshy valley of the Thames to the still more marshy valley of the Lea. The tribes who inhabit the land are at once fierce and warlike, and greedy for trading with merchants from over the narrow channel that separates Britain from Gaul. They are fair-haired and blue-eyed, they are dressed in the skins of wild animals, and their chieftains wear many ornaments of red gold." Then she is silent, for Clio, like her eight sisters, is a very ancient personage, and like the aged, although she knows much, cannot recall sights and scenes without a deal of mental fumbling.