THE DOVER ROAD
HISTORIES OF THE ROADS
BY CHARLES G. HARPER.
THE BRIGHTON ROAD: The Classic Highway to the South.
THE GREAT NORTH ROAD: London to York.
THE GREAT NORTH ROAD: York to Edinburgh.
THE DOVER ROAD: Annals of an Ancient Turnpike.
THE BATH ROAD: History, Fashion and Frivolity on an old Highway.
THE MANCHESTER AND GLASGOW ROAD: London to Manchester.
THE MANCHESTER ROAD: Manchester to Glasgow.
THE HOLYHEAD ROAD: London to Birmingham.
THE HOLYHEAD ROAD: Birmingham to Holyhead.
THE HASTINGS ROAD: And The "Happy Springs of Tunbridge."
THE OXFORD, GLOUCESTER AND MILFORD HAVEN ROAD: London to Gloucester.
THE OXFORD, GLOUCESTER AND MILFORD HAVEN ROAD: Gloucester to Milford
Haven.
THE NORWICH ROAD: An East Anglian Highway.
THE NEWMARKET, BURY, THETFORD AND CROMER ROAD.
THE EXETER ROAD: The West of England Highway.
THE PORTSMOUTH ROAD.
THE CAMBRIDGE, KING'S LYNN AND ELY ROAD.
[Illustration: MERCERY LANE, CANTERBURY.]
_The_ DOVER ROAD
Annals of an Ancient Turnpike
_By_ CHARLES G. HARPER
_Illustrated by the Author and from
Old Prints and Portraits_
[Illustration]
HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT
EDWIN VALENTINE MITCHELL
_First Published 1895._
_Second and Revised Edition 1922._
Manufactured in England by C. TINLING & CO., Ltd.
53, Victoria Street, Liverpool,
and 187, Fleet Street, London.
[Illustration: THE MILLER]
PREFACE
_It has been said, by whom I know not, that "prefaces to books are like
signs to public-houses; they are intended to give one an idea of the kind
of entertainment to be found within." But this preface is not to be like
those; for it would require an essay in itself to give a comprehensive
idea of the Dover Road, in all its implications. A road is not merely so
many miles of highway, more or less well-maintained. It is not only
something in the surveyor's way; but history as well. It is life, touched
at every point._
_The Dover Road--the highway between London and that most significant of
approaches to the Continent of Europe--would have been something much
more in its mere name had it not been for the accident of London: one of
the greatest accidents. It would have been considered a part of the great
road to Chester and to Holyhead: the route diagonally across England, from
sea to sea, which really in the first instance it was._
_For the Dover Road is actually the initial limb of the Watling Street:
that prehistoric British trackway adopted by the Romans and by them
engineered into a road; and it would seem that those Roman engineers,
instructed by the Imperial authorities, considered rather the military and
strategic needs of those times than those of_ LONDINIUM; _for London was
not on the direct road they made; and it was only at a later date, when it
was grown commercially, they constructed an alternative route that served
it._
_It would be rash to declare that more history has been enacted on this
road than on any other, although we may suspect it; but certainly history
is more spectacular along these miles. Those pageants and glittering
processions are of the past: they ended in 1840, when railways were about
to supplant the road; when the last distinguished traveller along these
miles, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, came up by carriage to wed
Queen Victoria._
CHARLES G. HARPER.
FEBRUARY, 1922.
THE ROAD TO DOVER
London Bridge (Surrey side) to--
MILES
Borough (St. George's Church) 1/2
Kent Street 3/4
Newington ("Bricklayers' Arms") 1
New Cross 3-1/4
Deptford 4-1/4
Blackheath 5
Shooter's Hill 8-1/4
Shoulder of Mutton Green 9-1/4
Belle Grove 9-1/2
Welling 10-1/4
Crook Log 10-3/4
Bexley Heath 11-1/4
Crayford (Cross River Cray) 13-1/4
Dartford (Cross River Darent) 15
John's Hole 16-1/4
Horn's Cross 17
Greenhithe 18
Northfleet 20-1/4
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BY CHARLES G. HARPER.
THE BRIGHTON ROAD: The Classic Highway to the South.
THE GREAT NORTH ROAD: London to York.
THE GREAT NORTH ROAD: York to Edinburgh.
THE DOVER ROAD: Annals of an Ancient Turnpike.
THE BATH ROAD: History, Fashion and Frivolity on an old Highway.
THE MANCHESTER AND GLASGOW ROAD: London to Manchester.
THE MANCHESTER ROAD: Manchester to Glasgow.
THE HOLYHEAD ROAD: London to Birmingham.
THE HOLYHEAD ROAD: Birmingham to Holyhead.
THE HASTINGS ROAD: And The "Happy Springs of Tunbridge."
THE OXFORD, GLOUCESTER AND MILFORD HAVEN ROAD: London to Gloucester.
THE OXFORD, GLOUCESTER AND MILFORD HAVEN ROAD: Gloucester to Milford
Haven.
THE NORWICH ROAD: An East Anglian Highway.
THE NEWMARKET, BURY, THETFORD AND CROMER ROAD.
THE EXETER ROAD: The West of England Highway.
THE PORTSMOUTH ROAD.
THE CAMBRIDGE, KING'S LYNN AND ELY ROAD.
[Illustration: MERCERY LANE, CANTERBURY.]
_The_ DOVER ROAD
Annals of an Ancient Turnpike
_By_ CHARLES G. HARPER
_Illustrated by the Author and from
Old Prints and Portraits_
[Illustration]
HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT
EDWIN VALENTINE MITCHELL
_First Published 1895._
_Second and Revised Edition 1922._
Manufactured in England by C. TINLING & CO., Ltd.
53, Victoria Street, Liverpool,
and 187, Fleet Street, London.
[Illustration: THE MILLER]
PREFACE
_It has been said, by whom I know not, that "prefaces to books are like
signs to public-houses; they are intended to give one an idea of the kind
of entertainment to be found within." But this preface is not to be like
those; for it would require an essay in itself to give a comprehensive
idea of the Dover Road, in all its implications. A road is not merely so
many miles of highway, more or less well-maintained. It is not only
something in the surveyor's way; but history as well. It is life, touched
at every point._
_The Dover Road--the highway between London and that most significant of
approaches to the Continent of Europe--would have been something much
more in its mere name had it not been for the accident of London: one of
the greatest accidents. It would have been considered a part of the great
road to Chester and to Holyhead: the route diagonally across England, from
sea to sea, which really in the first instance it was._
_For the Dover Road is actually the initial limb of the Watling Street:
that prehistoric British trackway adopted by the Romans and by them
engineered into a road; and it would seem that those Roman engineers,
instructed by the Imperial authorities, considered rather the military and
strategic needs of those times than those of_ LONDINIUM; _for London was
not on the direct road they made; and it was only at a later date, when it
was grown commercially, they constructed an alternative route that served
it._
_It would be rash to declare that more history has been enacted on this
road than on any other, although we may suspect it; but certainly history
is more spectacular along these miles. Those pageants and glittering
processions are of the past: they ended in 1840, when railways were about
to supplant the road; when the last distinguished traveller along these
miles, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, came up by carriage to wed
Queen Victoria._
CHARLES G. HARPER.
FEBRUARY, 1922.
THE ROAD TO DOVER
London Bridge (Surrey side) to--
MILES
Borough (St. George's Church) 1/2
Kent Street 3/4
Newington ("Bricklayers' Arms") 1
New Cross 3-1/4
Deptford 4-1/4
Blackheath 5
Shooter's Hill 8-1/4
Shoulder of Mutton Green 9-1/4
Belle Grove 9-1/2
Welling 10-1/4
Crook Log 10-3/4
Bexley Heath 11-1/4
Crayford (Cross River Cray) 13-1/4
Dartford (Cross River Darent) 15
John's Hole 16-1/4
Horn's Cross 17
Greenhithe 18
Northfleet 20-1/4
THE DOVER ROAD
HISTORIES OF THE ROADS
BY CHARLES G. HARPER.
THE BRIGHTON ROAD: The Classic Highway to the South.
THE GREAT NORTH ROAD: London to York.
THE GREAT NORTH ROAD: York to Edinburgh.
THE DOVER ROAD: Annals of an Ancient Turnpike.
THE BATH ROAD: History, Fashion and Frivolity on an old Highway.
THE MANCHESTER AND GLASGOW ROAD: London to Manchester.
THE MANCHESTER ROAD: Manchester to Glasgow.
THE HOLYHEAD ROAD: London to Birmingham.
THE HOLYHEAD ROAD: Birmingham to Holyhead.
THE HASTINGS ROAD: And The "Happy Springs of Tunbridge."
THE OXFORD, GLOUCESTER AND MILFORD HAVEN ROAD: London to Gloucester.
THE OXFORD, GLOUCESTER AND MILFORD HAVEN ROAD: Gloucester to Milford
Haven.
THE NORWICH ROAD: An East Anglian Highway.
THE NEWMARKET, BURY, THETFORD AND CROMER ROAD.
THE EXETER ROAD: The West of England Highway.
THE PORTSMOUTH ROAD.
THE CAMBRIDGE, KING'S LYNN AND ELY ROAD.
[Illustration: MERCERY LANE, CANTERBURY.]
_The_ DOVER ROAD
Annals of an Ancient Turnpike
_By_ CHARLES G. HARPER
_Illustrated by the Author and from
Old Prints and Portraits_
[Illustration]
HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT
EDWIN VALENTINE MITCHELL
_First Published 1895._
_Second and Revised Edition 1922._
Manufactured in England by C. TINLING & CO., Ltd.
53, Victoria Street, Liverpool,
and 187, Fleet Street, London.
[Illustration: THE MILLER]
PREFACE
_It has been said, by whom I know not, that "prefaces to books are like
signs to public-houses; they are intended to give one an idea of the kind
of entertainment to be found within." But this preface is not to be like
those; for it would require an essay in itself to give a comprehensive
idea of the Dover Road, in all its implications. A road is not merely so
many miles of highway, more or less well-maintained. It is not only
something in the surveyor's way; but history as well. It is life, touched
at every point._
_The Dover Road--the highway between London and that most significant of
approaches to the Continent of Europe--would have been something much
more in its mere name had it not been for the accident of London: one of
the greatest accidents. It would have been considered a part of the great
road to Chester and to Holyhead: the route diagonally across England, from
sea to sea, which really in the first instance it was._
_For the Dover Road is actually the initial limb of the Watling Street:
that prehistoric British trackway adopted by the Romans and by them
engineered into a road; and it would seem that those Roman engineers,
instructed by the Imperial authorities, considered rather the military and
strategic needs of those times than those of_ LONDINIUM; _for London was
not on the direct road they made; and it was only at a later date, when it
was grown commercially, they constructed an alternative route that served
it._
_It would be rash to declare that more history has been enacted on this
road than on any other, although we may suspect it; but certainly history
is more spectacular along these miles. Those pageants and glittering
processions are of the past: they ended in 1840, when railways were about
to supplant the road; when the last distinguished traveller along these
miles, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, came up by carriage to wed
Queen Victoria._
CHARLES G. HARPER.
FEBRUARY, 1922.
THE ROAD TO DOVER
London Bridge (Surrey side) to--
MILES
Borough (St. George's Church) 1/2
Kent Street 3/4
Newington ("Bricklayers' Arms") 1
New Cross 3-1/4
Deptford 4-1/4
Blackheath 5
Shooter's Hill 8-1/4
Shoulder of Mutton Green 9-1/4
Belle Grove 9-1/2
Welling 10-1/4
Crook Log 10-3/4
Bexley Heath 11-1/4
Crayford (Cross River Cray) 13-1/4
Dartford (Cross River Darent) 15
John's Hole 16-1/4
Horn's Cross 17
Greenhithe 18
Northfleet 20-1/4
BY CHARLES G. HARPER.
THE BRIGHTON ROAD: The Classic Highway to the South.
THE GREAT NORTH ROAD: London to York.
THE GREAT NORTH ROAD: York to Edinburgh.
THE DOVER ROAD: Annals of an Ancient Turnpike.
THE BATH ROAD: History, Fashion and Frivolity on an old Highway.
THE MANCHESTER AND GLASGOW ROAD: London to Manchester.
THE MANCHESTER ROAD: Manchester to Glasgow.
THE HOLYHEAD ROAD: London to Birmingham.
THE HOLYHEAD ROAD: Birmingham to Holyhead.
THE HASTINGS ROAD: And The "Happy Springs of Tunbridge."
THE OXFORD, GLOUCESTER AND MILFORD HAVEN ROAD: London to Gloucester.
THE OXFORD, GLOUCESTER AND MILFORD HAVEN ROAD: Gloucester to Milford
Haven.
THE NORWICH ROAD: An East Anglian Highway.
THE NEWMARKET, BURY, THETFORD AND CROMER ROAD.
THE EXETER ROAD: The West of England Highway.
THE PORTSMOUTH ROAD.
THE CAMBRIDGE, KING'S LYNN AND ELY ROAD.
[Illustration: MERCERY LANE, CANTERBURY.]
_The_ DOVER ROAD
Annals of an Ancient Turnpike
_By_ CHARLES G. HARPER
_Illustrated by the Author and from
Old Prints and Portraits_
[Illustration]
HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT
EDWIN VALENTINE MITCHELL
_First Published 1895._
_Second and Revised Edition 1922._
Manufactured in England by C. TINLING & CO., Ltd.
53, Victoria Street, Liverpool,
and 187, Fleet Street, London.
[Illustration: THE MILLER]
PREFACE
_It has been said, by whom I know not, that "prefaces to books are like
signs to public-houses; they are intended to give one an idea of the kind
of entertainment to be found within." But this preface is not to be like
those; for it would require an essay in itself to give a comprehensive
idea of the Dover Road, in all its implications. A road is not merely so
many miles of highway, more or less well-maintained. It is not only
something in the surveyor's way; but history as well. It is life, touched
at every point._
_The Dover Road--the highway between London and that most significant of
approaches to the Continent of Europe--would have been something much
more in its mere name had it not been for the accident of London: one of
the greatest accidents. It would have been considered a part of the great
road to Chester and to Holyhead: the route diagonally across England, from
sea to sea, which really in the first instance it was._
_For the Dover Road is actually the initial limb of the Watling Street:
that prehistoric British trackway adopted by the Romans and by them
engineered into a road; and it would seem that those Roman engineers,
instructed by the Imperial authorities, considered rather the military and
strategic needs of those times than those of_ LONDINIUM; _for London was
not on the direct road they made; and it was only at a later date, when it
was grown commercially, they constructed an alternative route that served
it._
_It would be rash to declare that more history has been enacted on this
road than on any other, although we may suspect it; but certainly history
is more spectacular along these miles. Those pageants and glittering
processions are of the past: they ended in 1840, when railways were about
to supplant the road; when the last distinguished traveller along these
miles, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, came up by carriage to wed
Queen Victoria._
CHARLES G. HARPER.
FEBRUARY, 1922.
THE ROAD TO DOVER
London Bridge (Surrey side) to--
MILES
Borough (St. George's Church) 1/2
Kent Street 3/4
Newington ("Bricklayers' Arms") 1
New Cross 3-1/4
Deptford 4-1/4
Blackheath 5
Shooter's Hill 8-1/4
Shoulder of Mutton Green 9-1/4
Belle Grove 9-1/2
Welling 10-1/4
Crook Log 10-3/4
Bexley Heath 11-1/4
Crayford (Cross River Cray) 13-1/4
Dartford (Cross River Darent) 15
John's Hole 16-1/4
Horn's Cross 17
Greenhithe 18
Northfleet 20-1/4
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