{"product_id":"2940012828101","title":"THE DOVER ROAD","description":"HISTORIES OF THE ROADS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBY CHARLES G. HARPER.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE BRIGHTON ROAD: The Classic Highway to the South.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE GREAT NORTH ROAD: London to York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE GREAT NORTH ROAD: York to Edinburgh.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE DOVER ROAD: Annals of an Ancient Turnpike.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE BATH ROAD: History, Fashion and Frivolity on an old Highway.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE MANCHESTER AND GLASGOW ROAD: London to Manchester.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE MANCHESTER ROAD: Manchester to Glasgow.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE HOLYHEAD ROAD: London to Birmingham.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE HOLYHEAD ROAD: Birmingham to Holyhead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE HASTINGS ROAD: And The \"Happy Springs of Tunbridge.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE OXFORD, GLOUCESTER AND MILFORD HAVEN ROAD: London to Gloucester.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE OXFORD, GLOUCESTER AND MILFORD HAVEN ROAD: Gloucester to Milford\u003cbr\u003eHaven.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE NORWICH ROAD: An East Anglian Highway.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE NEWMARKET, BURY, THETFORD AND CROMER ROAD.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE EXETER ROAD: The West of England Highway.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE PORTSMOUTH ROAD.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE CAMBRIDGE, KING'S LYNN AND ELY ROAD.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: MERCERY LANE, CANTERBURY.]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  _The_ DOVER ROAD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Annals of an Ancient Turnpike\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  _By_ CHARLES G. HARPER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  _Illustrated by the Author and from\u003cbr\u003e  Old Prints and Portraits_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  [Illustration]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT\u003cbr\u003e  EDWIN VALENTINE MITCHELL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  _First Published 1895._\u003cbr\u003e  _Second and Revised Edition 1922._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Manufactured in England by C. TINLING \u0026amp; CO., Ltd.\u003cbr\u003e  53, Victoria Street, Liverpool,\u003cbr\u003e  and 187, Fleet Street, London.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: THE MILLER]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePREFACE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_It has been said, by whom I know not, that \"prefaces to books are like\u003cbr\u003esigns to public-houses; they are intended to give one an idea of the kind\u003cbr\u003eof entertainment to be found within.\" But this preface is not to be like\u003cbr\u003ethose; for it would require an essay in itself to give a comprehensive\u003cbr\u003eidea of the Dover Road, in all its implications. A road is not merely so\u003cbr\u003emany miles of highway, more or less well-maintained. It is not only\u003cbr\u003esomething in the surveyor's way; but history as well. It is life, touched\u003cbr\u003eat every point._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_The Dover Road--the highway between London and that most significant of\u003cbr\u003eapproaches to the Continent of Europe--would have been something much\u003cbr\u003emore in its mere name had it not been for the accident of London: one of\u003cbr\u003ethe greatest accidents. It would have been considered a part of the great\u003cbr\u003eroad to Chester and to Holyhead: the route diagonally across England, from\u003cbr\u003esea to sea, which really in the first instance it was._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_For the Dover Road is actually the initial limb of the Watling Street:\u003cbr\u003ethat prehistoric British trackway adopted by the Romans and by them\u003cbr\u003eengineered into a road; and it would seem that those Roman engineers,\u003cbr\u003einstructed by the Imperial authorities, considered rather the military and\u003cbr\u003estrategic needs of those times than those of_ LONDINIUM; _for London was\u003cbr\u003enot on the direct road they made; and it was only at a later date, when it\u003cbr\u003ewas grown commercially, they constructed an alternative route that served\u003cbr\u003eit._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_It would be rash to declare that more history has been enacted on this\u003cbr\u003eroad than on any other, although we may suspect it; but certainly history\u003cbr\u003eis more spectacular along these miles. Those pageants and glittering\u003cbr\u003eprocessions are of the past: they ended in 1840, when railways were about\u003cbr\u003eto supplant the road; when the last distinguished traveller along these\u003cbr\u003emiles, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, came up by carriage to wed\u003cbr\u003eQueen Victoria._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHARLES G. HARPER.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFEBRUARY, 1922.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE ROAD TO DOVER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLondon Bridge (Surrey side) to--\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                           MILES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Borough (St. George's Church)              1\/2\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Kent Street                                3\/4\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Newington (\"Bricklayers' Arms\")          1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  New Cross                                3-1\/4\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Deptford                                 4-1\/4\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Blackheath                               5\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Shooter's Hill                           8-1\/4\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Shoulder of Mutton Green                 9-1\/4\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Belle Grove                              9-1\/2\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Welling                                 10-1\/4\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Crook Log                               10-3\/4\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Bexley Heath                            11-1\/4\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Crayford (Cross River Cray)             13-1\/4\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Dartford (Cross River Darent)           15\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  John's Hole                             16-1\/4\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Horn's Cross                            17\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Greenhithe                              18\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Northfleet                              20-1\/4","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069607461104,"sku":"2940012828101","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012828101_p0.jpg?v=1763572960","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012828101","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}