Surrey,
February, 1904.
THE ROAD TO NEWMARKET, THETFORD,
NORWICH, AND CROMER.
| London (General Post Office) to— | MILES |
| Shoreditch Church | 1½ |
| Cambridge Heath | 2½ |
| Hackney Church | 3½ |
| Lower Clapton | 4 |
| Lea Bridge (Cross River Lea.) | 5½ |
| Whip’s Cross | 6¾ |
| Snaresbrook (“The Eagle”) | 8 |
| Woodford (St. Mary’s Church) | 9 |
| Woodford Green | 9¾ |
| Woodford Wells (“Horse and Well” Inn) | 10¼ |
| Buckhurst Hill (“Bald-faced Stag”) | 11 |
| Loughton | 13 |
| Wake Arms | 15 |
| Epping | 18 |
| Thornwood Common | 20¼ |
| Potter Street | 2½ |
| Harlow (Cross River Stort: Stort Navigation, Harlow Wharf.) | 24½ |
| Sawbridgeworth | 26¾ |
| Spelbrook | 28½ |
| Thorley Street (Cross River Stort.) | 29½ |
| Hockerill, Bishop Stortford | 30½ |
| Stansted Mountfitchet | 33½ |
| Ugley | 35½ |
| Quendon | 36½ |
| Newport (Cross Wicken Water.) | 39 |
| Uttlesford Bridge, Audley End (On right, Saffron Walden, 1½ mile; on left, ½ mile, Wendens Ambo.) | 40¼ |
| Littlebury | 42¼ |
| Little Chesterford (Cross River Cam.) | 43¾ |
| Great Chesterford | 44½ |
| Stump Cross | 45¼ |
| Pampisford Station, Bourn Bridge (Cross Bourn Stream, or Linton River.) | 48½ |
| Six Mile Bottom Level Crossing, Six Mile Bottom Station.) | 54½ |
| Devil’s Ditch | 58½ |
| Newmarket (Clock Tower) | 60½ |
| “Red Lodge” Inn (Cross River Kennett.) | 65½ |
| Barton Mills (Cross River Lark, Mildenhall, on left, 1 mile.) | 69¾ |
| Elveden | 77 |
| Thetford (Cross Rivers Little Ouse and Thet.) | 80¾ |
| Larling Level Crossing | 85¾ |
| Larlingford (Cross River Thet.) | 88¾ |
| Attleborough | 94¾ |
| Morley St. Peter Post Office | 97 |
| Wymondham | 100¾ |
| Hethersett | 104¼ |
| Cringleford (Cross River Yare.) | 106¾ |
| Eaton | 107¼ |
| Norwich (loop road) (Cross River Wensum.) | 109¾ |
| Upper Hellesdon | 110½ |
| Mile Cross | 111 |
| Horsham St. Faith | 114¼ |
| Newton St. Faith | 115½ |
| Stratton Strawless | 117½ |
| Hevingham | 118 |
| Marsham | 120 |
| Aylsham (loop road) (Cross River Bure.) | 121½ |
| Ingworth | 123½ |
| Erpingham | 125½ |
| Hanworth Corner | 126¾ |
| Roughton | 128½ |
| Crossdale Street | 131 |
| Cromer | 132 |
| To Thetford, through Bury St. Edmunds. | |
| Newmarket (Clock Tower) | 61¾ |
| Kentford (Cross River Kennett.) | 66 |
| Higham Station | 68½ |
| Saxham White Horse | 71½ |
| Risby | 73 |
| Bury St. Edmunds | 75½ |
| Fornham St. Martin | 77½ |
| Ingham | 79¾ |
| Seven Hills | 81¾ |
| Barnham | 85½ |
| Thetford | 87¾ |
List of Illustrations
SEPARATE PLATES
| PAGE | |
| The Norwich Mail in a Thunderstorm on Thetford Heath. (From a Print after J. Pollard) | [Frontispiece] |
| The Norwich Stage, about 1790. (From a Painting by an Artist unknown) | [5] |
| The “Expedition,” Newmarket and Norwich Stage, about 1798. (From the Painting by Cordery) | [9] |
| Rye House | [21] |
| The “Eagle,” Snaresbrook: the Norwich Mail passing, 1832. (From a Print after J. Pollard) | [41] |
| The “White Hart,” Woodford. (From a Drawing by P. Palfrey) | [45] |
| Birthplace of Cecil Rhodes | [59] |
| Henry Gilbey | [63] |
| The “Crown,” Hockerill, demolished 1903. (From a Drawing by P. Palfrey) | [67] |
| The “White Bear,” Stansted. (From a Drawing by P. Palfrey) | [71] |
| The “Old Bell,” Stansted. (From a Drawing by P. Palfrey) | [75] |
| London Lane, Newport: where Charles the Second’s Route to Newmarket joined the Highway | [85] |
| The Devil’s Ditch and Newmarket Heath, looking towards Ely | [125] |
| Yard of the “White Hart,” Newmarket | [147] |
| Newmarket: the “Rutland Arms” | [153] |
| “Angel Hill,” Bury St. Edmunds | [181] |
| Mildenhall | [195] |
| Barton Mills | [199] |
| The “Nuns’ Bridges” on the Icknield Way, Thetford | [217] |
| The “Bell Inn,” Thetford, and St. Peter’s Church | [221] |
| Castle Hill, Thetford, in 1848. (From an old Print) | [229] |
| Wymondham | [279] |
| The “Unicorn,” Norwich and Cromer Coach. (From a Print after J. Pollard, 1830) | [295] |
| “St. Fay’s” | [311] |
| Blickling Hall | [319] |
| Cromer in 1830.(From a Print after T. Creswick, R.A.) | [343] |
| Cromer | [349] |