Category: Travel Writing
_The author of a little book published in 1818, called_ A JOURNEY TO LONDON, _which is nearly all "London" with very little "journey," remarks that "it is as uncommon for a book to go into the world without a preface, as a man without a hat. They are both convenient coverings....
Rural Essex, in the aspect of its fields and meadows, is revealed along these miles in its most characteristic form. It is, in many respects, unlike other counties. In some ways...
5. Part 5This old picture has long ceased to be representative of Whitechapel's everyday aspect. The coach has long ago whirled away into limbo, the elegantly-dressed groups have been ga...
7. Part 7If it were not for its church, which has been re-built and has a very fine and tall spire, one might easily pass Widford and not know it, for the very few houses do not suffice...
16. Part 16DICKLEBURGH, the next village after Scole, is in its way as imposing a place, only not an inn, but a church, is its chief feature. The great church of Dickleborough (as the name...
3. Part 3As time went on, a certain degree of security was found in the coaches that began to make an appearance with the second half of the seventeenth century. They travelled at first...
4. Part 4One who was contemporary with the coaching age has ingeniously divided coaching accidents into three classes:--1. Accidents to the coach; 2. Accidents to the horses; 3. Accident...
8. Part 8Those who would seek the site of the original Witham must turn aside from the high road the matter of half a mile, past the railway station, to Chipping Hill, where, within the...
12. Part 12That siege of Colchester is the most romantic incident that has survived in the history of the town. It is the story of a last desperate attempt of the Royalists to contend with...
10. Part 10The modern reader, perusing all these manifold sins and wickednesses of the roads, rather wonders how they could all have been crowded on to such truly vile ways, and if a stone...
2. Part 2LONDON made no remarkable growth between the Roman and mediæval periods, but this road had in that time slightly altered its course from its starting-point, and, instead of goin...
6. Part 6The citizen is astonished and incredulous, and his astonishment gets the better of his fear. "Oh, come now," he rejoins, "no one walks three miles from Romford for a glass of be...
13. Part 13Nor did Constable only _paint_ his native vale; he has described it in almost as masterly a way. To him it was "the most cultivated part of Suffolk, a spot which overlooks the f...
14. Part 14"A fine, populous, and beautiful place," says Cobbett, still harping on an unwonted string of praise. "The town is substantially built, well paved, everything good and solid, an...
15. Part 15But let not the hurried seek Gipping, along the winding by-roads. The way, if not far, is not easy, and passengers are few. Scattered and infrequent farmhouses there be, at whos...
11. Part 11These down-trodden natives were already ripe for revenge when a more than usually unjust proceeding of the Roman officials precipitated a rising. The Iceni, who inhabited Norfol...
17. Part 17Where the Romans and the Romano-British citizens of Venta lived when the tribes were reduced--where the Venta Icenorum of Roman rule really was, in fact--is a mystery, for, unli...
1. Part 1_The author of a little book published in 1818, called_ A JOURNEY TO LONDON, _which is nearly all "London" with very little "journey," remarks that "it is as uncommon for a book...
18. Part 18Inns (mentioned at length):-- "Angel," Colchester, 196, 197 ----, Kelvedon, 140, 141, 147, 148, 162 ----, Norwich, 34, 306 "Belle Sauvage," Ludgate Hill, 19 "Black Boy," Chelmsf...