Starting from the General Post Office in Lombard Street, Harper follows the coaching road north through Barnet, Hatfield, Stevenage, Stamford and Grantham to York. At every stage he recalls the inns and post-houses, mail coaches and their drivers, highwaymen and fugitives, battles and eccentrics, with a preface noting how the motor car was changing the road.
The first of Harper’s two volumes on the road, rich in English lore for walkers, drivers and armchair travellers. Download the free EPUB.