THE MANCHESTER AND GLASGOW ROAD

London to Manchester
MILES

London (General Post Office) to

Islington (the “Angel”)

 1¼

Highgate Archway

 4¼

East End, Finchley

 5¾

Brown’s Wells, Finchley Common (“Green Man”)

 7

North Finchley: “Tally-ho Corner”

 7½

Whetstone

 9¼

Greenhill Cross

 10¼

Barnet

 11¼

South Mimms

 14½

Ridge Hill

 16

London Colney

 17½

(Cross River Colne.)

St. Albans (“Peahen”)

 20¾

Redbourne

 25

Friar’s Wash

 27½

Markyate

 29

Dunstable (“Crown”)

 33½

Hockliffe

 37½

Woburn

 42

Woburn Sands

 43¾

Wavendon

 45¼

Broughton

 47½

Newport Pagnell

 50½

(Cross River Ouse.)

Lathbury

 51¼

Gayhurst

 53¼

Stoke Goldington

 55

Eakley Lane

 56½

Horton

 59

Piddington

 59¼

Hackleton

 60

Queen’s Cross

 64

Northampton (All Saints’ Church)

 65¼

Kingsthorpe

 67

Brixworth

 71¾

Lamport

 74¼

(Level Crossing, Lamport Station.)

Maidwell

 75¼

Kelmarsh

 76¾

Clipston Station

 78¾

Oxendon

 79¼

(Cross River Welland.)

Market Harborough

 82

(Cross Union Canal.)

Kibworth

 87¾

Great Glen

 90¾

Oadby

 93

Leicester

 96¾

Belgrave

 98½

(Cross River Soar.)

Mountsorrel

103¾

Quorndon

105¼

Loughborough (“Bull’s Head”)

107¾

Dishley

109¾

Hathern

110½

Kegworth

113¾

Cavendish Bridge

117¼

(Cross River Trent.)

Shardlow

117¾

Alvaston

121¾

Osmaston

122¾

(Cross Derby Canal.)

Derby (Market Place)

124¾

Mackworth

127¼

Kirk Langley

129

Brailsford

131½

Ashbourne

137¾

Hanging Bridge

139¼

(Cross River Dove.)

Swinescote

140¾

Milk Hill Gate

144¼

Waterhouses

145

Winkhill

146¾

Bottom Inn (“Green Man”)

148

Bradnop

150¾

Low Hill

151½

Leek (Market Place)

152½

Pool End

154¼

Rushton Marsh

157½

(Cross River Dane.)

Bosley

160

Macclesfield

165½

Titherington

166

Flash

167¾

Hope Green

171¾

Poynton

172½

Hazel Grove

174¾

Stockport

177½

(Cross River Mersey.)

Heaton Norris

179

Heaton Chapel

179¾

Levenshulme

180½

Grindley Marsh

181½

Longsight

182

Ardwick Green

183¼

(Cross Manchester and Ashton-under-Lyne Canal.)

Manchester (St. Ann’s Square)

184¾

List of Illustrations

SEPARATE PLATES

The Mail Change (By J. Herring)

[Frontispiece]
PAGE

The Glasgow Mail, about 1830 (After J. Pollard)

 [7]

The Glasgow Mail leaving the Yard of the “Bulland Mouth” (After C. Cooper Henderson)

 [17]

The “Courier,” Manchester, Carlisle and GlasgowCoach (After C. B. Newhouse)

 [27]

Mails leaving the Yard of the “Swan with twoNecks,” 1834 (After J. Pollard)

 [35]

The “Manchester Telegraph,” 1834 (After RobertHavell)

 [39]

Islington Green, 1825

[113]

The Manchester Mail changing Horses at the “OldWhite Lion,” Finchley, 1835 (After James Pollard)

[117]

Queen Eleanor Cross (From a photograph taken beforethe restoration of 1884)

[181]

Northampton: Market Place and All Saints’Church

[191]

Market Harborough

[213]

Mountsorrel

[249]

The Chase and the Road (After H. Atken)

[255]

Stage-Coach Travelling, 1828 (Derby and Sheffield)(After J. Pollard)

[295]

Church Street, Ashbourne

[313]

The Manchester Mails passing one another nearAshbourne (After J. Pollard)

[327]

Macclesfield, from the Road to Stockport

[343]
ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT

Monken Hadley Church

[120]

The Fire-Pot, Monken Hadley

[122]

The Gateway, Dyrham Park

[124]

The “Fleur-de-Lis”

[127]

Relics of the Saxon Church in the North Transept, St.Albans

[131]

Lord Grimthorpe

[138]

Shrine of St. Alban and Tomb of Duke Humphrey

[141]

Gorhambury

[151]

Markyate Cell

[153]

Woburn Abbey

[161]

Woburn

[163]

Newport Pagnell

[167]

Lathbury Church

[170]

Gayhurst

[172]

The “George and Dragon,” Eakley Lane

[173]

Horton Inn

[175]

Piddington Church

[177]

Interior, Church of the Holy Sepulchre

[195]

Brixworth Church

[201]

Lamport Church

[205]

Paxton

[208]

Monument to Judge Nichols

[209]

St. Nicholas and the Roman Wall

[225]

The Roman Milestone

[227]

St. Margaret’s

[231]

Trinity Hospital Porridge-Pot

[234]

St. Mary’s

[235]

In the Courtyard, the Old Town Hall

[241]

Church and Cavern, Woodhouse Eaves

[253]

From the Monument to John Farnham

[258]

Gotham

[265]

The Causeway, Swarkestone Bridge

[268]

Swarkestone Bridge

[273]

“The Balcony,” Swarkestone

[277]

Cavendish Bridge

[280]

The Trent, and Cavendish Bridge, from Shardlow

[282]

Elvaston Castle

[285]

Courtyard of the “Bell” Inn

[291]

“Young Men and Maidens”

[299]

All Saints’

[301]

St. Alkmund’s

[303]

St. Mary’s Bridge

[305]

Penelope Boothby’s Monument

[316]

The “Green Man and Black’s Head,” Ashbourne

[322]

Hanging Bridge

[325]

Swinscoe

[330]

Waterhouses

[331]

Bottom Inn: The “Green Man”

[332]

Leek

[334]

Prestbury

[345]

The “Village of Hazel Grove”

[351]

Old Town House of the Ardernes, Stockport

[356]