Through East Anglia in a Motor Car

Modern motoring and lack of sensational events--Colchester and district seen during Military manoeuvres--Farcical operations and abundant leisure--Study of Colchester--Interesti...

Some books consulted--"Murray" useless to motorists: proceeds by rail and observes county boundaries--Arthur Young's _Six Weeks' Tour_ dull--Leland's _Itinerary_ a mass of undig...

The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macau...

In an 18 White steam car--Best exit from London eastwards--General ignorance of the White steam cars--Some interested prejudice against them--An account of them--Independent tes...

Harleston--The "Magpie"--Typical East Anglian village--Flixton Park--Bungay--Mr. Rider Haggard as _vates sacer_--Antiquities of Bungay--Spa projected in eighteenth century--The...

The end of these wanderings is now close in sight, and the thought fills him who writes with feelings in which regret predominates over relief. He would be a cold-blooded person...

Elections delay start--Rail to Oxford--A treasure gained--Rail to Cambridge--Bull Hotel--English hotels criticized--Motorists squeezed--Morning at Cambridge--King's Chapel--Trin...

A walk in Ipswich--Sparrowe's House--With Pickwick and the Wellers--Start at noon--The glittering car--Another passenger--Infantine pilotage--A loose clutch--Mechanic's chagrin-...

Troubles over--Road viâ Lower Sheringham, Salthouse, Cley-next-Sea, Blakeney, Stiffkey and Wells-next-Sea--Impressive desolation--Wells--Binham--The building and making of Holkh...

Coggeshall--Pleasant site occupied by Romans first and Cistercians later--Braintree--General Wynne as Cunctator--Braintree for motorists having daily work in London--The plan di...

An afternoon's drive--Lexden--Close to Colchester--Earlier visit assumed--Probable site of Cunobelin's city--Position described by the _Quarterly_--Boadicea's revenge--Stoke by...

Early rising a mistake--Fine weather and misty mornings--Bound for Grays, near Tilbury--To Chelmsford--Great Baddow and Clare College, Cambridge--Galleywood Common--A wide prosp...

To Castle Rising--Once a port--Once a borough--The keep and surroundings--The mystery of the earthworks--Not Roman probably--A suggestion--Robert de Montault's feud with Lynn--R...

Paucity of incidents so far--They often mean bad driving--Good driving and bad--The Grey Ghost in Berks--A burst tire--A warning--A puncture at Thame--Treasure trove--Meet mecha...

Crooked streets of Norwich--An appropriate epitaph--To the county surveyor of Norfolk many thanks--The London Road (Roman)--Roman roads in East Anglia--Mr. Haverfield, the great...

A stormy morning--Past golf-links to Bawdsey Ferry--Sir Cuthbert Quilter's work of reclamation--A short climb but very stiff--Some remote byways to Woodbridge--Heavy rain--Value...

HILLS The early part of the projected drive is through undulating country not marked by very severe gradients. The later part, from Fakenham to Swaffham, is over ground higher i...

IMPORTANT NOTE. _The route out of London Eastwards given below under "Distances" is believed to be incomparably the best in that direction. It is therefore given with great part...

ROADS The surface is reasonably good, and the milestones are legible so long as the road is in Norfolk. On entering Suffolk the milestones are often found illegible, and the sur...

ROADS Good to Marks Tey. Fair to Coggeshall, Braintree, and Witham. Good from Witham to Ingatestone. Second-rate from Margaretting to Tiptree. Bad from Tiptree to Heckford Bridg...

Few practical suggestions are needed by the motorist in East Anglia--a district not presenting many difficulties. Those which are deemed necessary are here prefixed to the whole...

_Détour_ to Aldeburgh recommended. Turn to right at Farnham, 2 short of Saxmundham. To Aldeburgh (R.), 7. Rejoin Blythburgh road at Yoxford. Yoxford from Aldeburgh, 9. From Saxm...

DISTANCES Norwich to Watton (P.), 8. Watton to Brandon, 13. [N.B.--This is a by-way to find which turn sharply to left on reaching the Lynn and Thetford road. The distance is ap...

DISTANCES Colchester to Lexden, 2. Lexden to Stoke-by-Nayland, 10. Stoke-by-Nayland to Sudbury, alternative routes (1) viâ Bures St. Mary, Marsh, and Great Cornard, 10. (2) viâ...

ROADS High-roads fair throughout. Byways between Bawdsey and Woodbridge very bad, rough, and soft. [N.B.--Bawdsey Ferry should not be attempted, especially at low tide, unless t...

_Détour_ suggested to East Bergholt, viâ Dedham, 5; back to Manningtree, 5. Manningtree to Harwich (R. A.), viâ Mistley, Bradfield, and Dovercourt (R.), 11-1/2. Harwich to Colch...

DISTANCES Colchester to Chelmsford (R.A.), 23-1/4. Chelmsford to Great Baddow, 1-3/4. Great Baddow to Billericay (P.), 8. Billericay to Horndon, 8. Horndon to Chadwell, 4. Chadw...

_Note._--This was merely an afternoon drive in East Anglia, preceded by a morning spent in reaching it by car; but it is not the less likely to be suitable to other motorists fo...

DISTANCES Cromer (R.) to Wells-next-Sea (R.), 20-1/2. Wells to Fakenham (R.), 9-3/4. Fakenham to Lynn (R.), 21-3/4. Lynn to Ely (R.), 29. Ely to Cambridge (R. A.), 16. Cambridge...

King's Lynn--The Globe Hotel--English hotels--Reform necessary but difficult--Centre of exploration in adjacent country--Early history of Lynn--Little known--Not Roman--Importan...

DISTANCES Harleston (R.) to Bungay (R.), 7-1/2. Bungay to Beccles (R. A.), 6. Beccles to Lowestoft (R. A.), 10. Lowestoft to Yarmouth (R. A.), 10. Yarmouth viâ Caister to Norwic...