The Exeter Road: the story of the west of England highway

by Charles G. Harper

INDEX

[A], [B], [C], [D], [E], [F], [G], [H], [I], [J], [K], [L], [M], [N], [O], [P], [R], [S], [T], [U], [V], [W], [Y].

Abbot’s Ann, [153]
Alderbury, [183]
Amesbury, [1], [2], [8], [12], [154], [195], [209]
Andover, [1], [94], [123], [132-145], [217], [219]
Ashe, [124]
Automobile Club, [212]
Axminster, [2], [9], [296]
Bagshot, [3], [18], [69], [89], [96-98], [103]
Bagshot Heath, [95-98]
Basing House, siege of, [114-120], [123]
Basing, Old, [113], [122]
Basingstoke, [101], [113], [122]
Bedfont, East, [78-80]
Bedford Park, [92]
Blackwater, [100], [101]
Blandford, [2], [7], [9], [12], [242-216], [256-265]
‘Bloody Assize,’ [273-275]
Bokerley Dyke, [237]
Bredy, Little, [283]
Bredy, Long, [283], [284], [286], [289]
Brentford, [16], [33], [34], [53], [56-63], [92], [93]
Bridehead, [283]
Bridport, [2], [94], [220], [280], [290-292], [295]
‘Broad Stone,’ the, [280]
Bryanstone, [265]
Camberley, [99], [101]
Cambridge Town, [99], [101]
Charlton Downs, [265]
Charmouth, [293-296]
Chettle Common, [247]
Chideock, [292]
Chilcombe, [285]
Chiswick High Road, [92]
Clerken Green, [124]
Coaches—
‘Celerity,’ [12], [195]
‘Comet,’ [15], [18], [25]
‘Defiance,’ [12], [105], [195]
Devonport Mail (see ‘Quicksilver’)
‘Diligence,’ [186]
‘Exeter Fly,’ [2], [9], [15], [292]
‘Express,’ [91]
‘Fly Vans,’ [10], [106]
‘Herald,’ [12]
‘Old Times,’ [91]
‘Pilot,’ [12]
‘Post Coach,’ [186]
‘Prince George,’ [12]
‘Quicksilver,’ [3], [8], [11], [12], [22], [25], [27], [30], [33]
‘Regulator,’ [8], [12], [21], [25], [105]
‘Royal Mail,’ [8], [9], [11], [32], [69], [162-165], [186]
Short Stages, [33]
‘Sovereign,’ [8], [12]
Stage Waggons, [11], [106]
‘Subscription,’ [12], [195]
‘Telegraph,’ [2], [3], [8], [10], [11], [30], [33], [69], [195], [309], [310]
‘Traveller,’ [12]
Coaching, [2], [7-31], [62], [69], [81], [91], [102-108], [127], [141], [157], [162-165], [184-188], [195], [309]
Coaching Notabilities—
Mountain, Mrs., [29]
Nelson, Mrs., [2]
‘Nimrod,’ [12]
Nobbs, Moses James, [31]
Ward, Charles, [69], [309]
Coombe Bissett, [234], [242]
Cranborne Chase, [237], [238], [245-250], [254]
Cuckold’s Corner, [285], [286]
Dead Drummer, the, [238-242]
Deane, [124]
Deer-stealers, [246-248]
Dickens, Charles, [184-186], [212-215]
Dodington, George Bubb, [250-255]
Dorchester, [2], [12], [94], [95], [227], [268-279]
Eastbury Park, [250-256]
Egham, [86], [89-91], [94]
Exeter, [2], [3], [4], [6], [10], [11], [30], [31], [33], [93], [94], [95], [303-314]
Fares, [11], [22], [28], [106]
Feltham Industrial School, [77]
Fenny Bridges, [300]
Fordington, [271], [272]
Freefolk, [126]
Gay, John, [59], [85], [292]
Gibbon, Edward, [261]
Great Western Railway, [31], [299], [309]
Gunnersbury, [92], [93]
Hammersmith, [56], [89], [254]
Hardy, Thomas, [155], [166], [268], [276]
Hartford Bridge, [21], [22], [102-110]
Hartford Bridge Flats, [22], [101]
Hartley Row, [100], [101], [221], [222]
Hatton, [73]
Hazlitt, William, [73], [157-162], [186]
Highwaymen, [70], [74], [98], [187], [215-232]
Biss, [216], [310]
Blagden, Isaac, [217]
Boulter, Thomas, [217]
Boulter, Thomas, junr., [218-228], [310]
Caldwell, James, [223-228], [310]
Davis, William, [98], [216]
Du Vail, Claude, [70], [99]
‘Golden Farmer,’ the (see Davis, William)
Peare, William, [228]
Turpin, Richard, [70]
Whitney, Capt. James, [216]
Highwaywoman (Mary Sandall), [228]
Holloway College, [90]
Honiton, [1], [2], [95], [297-299]
Hook, [101], [110]
Hounslow, [16], [17], [32], [65], [69], [92]
Hounslow Heath, [69-71], [75-78]
Hurstbourne Priors, [125], [131]
Hurstbourne Tarrant, [132]
Hyde Park Corner, [1], [16], [33], [38], [40], [62]
Inns (mentioned at length)—
‘Anchor,’ Charmouth, [295]
‘Bell,’ Hounslow, [65]
‘Bells of Ouseley,’ Old Windsor, [87-89]
‘Black Dog,’ East Bedfont, [79]
‘Bull,’ Aldgate, [2]
‘Bull and Mouth,’ St. Martin-le-Grand, [12]
‘Cashmoor,’ [242], [247]
‘Deptford,’ Wilton, [13]
‘Elephant,’ Exeter, [309]
‘Fair Mile,’ [300]
‘George,’ Andover, [136], [142-145]
‘George,’ Axminster, [296]
‘Gloucester Coffee House,’ Piccadilly, [34], [38]
‘Goose and Gridiron,’ St. Paul’s Churchyard, [37]
‘Green Dragon,’ Alderbury, [183]
‘Green Man,’ Hatton, [74]
‘Half Moon,’ Exeter, [2], [310]
‘Hotel Victoria,’ Northumberland Avenue, [91]
‘Jolly Farmer,’ Bagshot, [99]
‘King’s Arms,’ Bagshot, [97], [98]
‘King’s Arms,’ Dorchester, [275], [276]
‘Mermaid,’ Exeter, [310]
‘New London,’ Exeter, [8], [12]
‘Old White Hart,’ Hook, [110]
‘Park House,’ Amesbury, [1], [195]
‘Queen’s Arms,’ Charmouth, [295]
‘Ship,’ Morecomblake, [294]
‘Swan-with-Two-Necks,’ Lad Lane, [8], [11], [12], [62]
‘Thickthorn,’ [242]
‘Thorney Down,’ [242]
‘Traveller’s Rest, [286-289], [290]
‘Wheatsheaf,’ Virginia Water, [91]
‘White Bear,’ Piccadilly, [26]
‘White Hart,’ Hook, [110]
‘White Hart,’ Milborne St. Andrew, [267]
‘White Hart,’ Whitchurch, [127], [123]
‘White Horse Cellars,’ Piccadilly, [26]
‘Winterslow Hut,’ [110], [156-165], [186], [218], [223]
‘Woodyates,’ [94], [234-241], [247]
Jeffreys, Judge, [273]
Kensington, [53-56], [89]
Kilmington, [297]
Kingston Russell, [283]
Knightsbridge, [48]
Laverstoke, [125]
Lioness attacks Mail, [162-165]
Little Ann, [153]
Little Bredy, [283], [289]
Little Wallop, [155], [265]
Lobcombe Corner, [156]
Long Bredy, [283], [284]
M’Adam, John Loudon, [17], [29]
Mail coaches established, [9]
Mapledurwell Hatch, [113]
Market-gardens, [73-76]
Martin Chuzzlewit, [183-186]
Matcham, Jarvis, [241]
Mayor of Casterbridge, [146], [155], [271], [276]
Middle Wallop, [155]
Milborne St. Andrew, [266]
Monmouth’s Rebellion, [237], [273], [291], [297]
Morecomblake, [95], [292-294]
Mullen’s Pond, [1], [195]
Nately Scures, [110]
Nether Wallop, [154-156]
New Sarum, [167], [170]
Oakley, [124]
Old Basing, [113], [122]
Old Sarum, [94], [167-170], [191]
Old Windsor, [87]
Old-time travellers—
Charles II., [291], [293-296]
Cobbett, Richard, [75], [89], [90-101], [109], [110], [125], [142-145], [192], [300]
Conyngham, Lord Albert, [140]
George III., [238], [275]
Knighton, Sir William, [10], [187]
Monmouth, Duke of, [237], [291], [297]
Newman, Cardinal, [127]
Payne, George, [141]
Pepys, Samuel, [187], [19]
Taylor, John (the ‘Water Poet’), [80]
Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, [26-30]
Omnibuses, [34], [40]
Overton, [124], [125]
Over Wallop, [154-156]
Patteson, Dr., [299]
Piccadilly, [2]
Piddletown, [265], [267]
Pimperne, [248], [256]
Police, the, [51]
Roman Roads, [8], [82-85], [92-95], [279]
Russells, the, [283]
St. George’s Hospital, [38], [40]
St. Mary Bourne, [94]
Salisbury, [1], [4], [9], [165-183], [313]
Salisbury Plain, [102], [191], [195-199], [203], [209], [212-217], [230-232], [238], [242]
Sarum, New, [167], [170]
Sarum, Old, [94], [167-170], [191]
Shrub’s Hill, [92], [93], [95]
Shute Hill, [297]
Staines, [1], [17], [72], [81-86], [92]
Staines Stone, [82-84]
Stevens, Alfred, [262]
Stonehenge, [188], [196-212]
Sunningdale, [89], [95]
Sunninghill, [89]
Tarrant Gunville, [248], [256]
Tarrant Hinton, [242], [256], [265]
Thorney Down, [94], [242]
Troy Town, [268]
Turnham Green, [56], [92]
Turnpike Gates, [44-48], [154], [267], [298]
Upper Wallop, [154-156]
Virginia Water, [89], [91], [95]
Wallops, the, [154-156], [265]
Watchmen, the old, [51]
Wesley, Rev. Bartholomew, [295]
Wesley, John, [265]
West Harnham, [234]
Weyhill, [1], [94], [154]
Weyhill Fair, [133], [142], [145-152]
Whitchurch, [1], [32], [124], [127-131], [221]
Wilmington, [297]
Windsor, Old, [87]
Winterborne Abbas, [280]
Winterborne Whitchurch, [265], [267]
Worting, [115], [123]
Yellowham Hill, [268]
Yeovil, [1], [12]
York Town, [99], [100], [101]
Young’s Corner, [92]

Printed by R. & R. Clark, Limited, Edinburgh.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] ‘Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.’

[2] Yes, but the time was cut down to fourteen hours a few years later.

[3] Waggons travelling at the rate of not more than four miles an hour were exempt from excise duty.