...are worse than any of the preceding.' Of the turnpike between Holmes Chapel and Newcastle, he says, ' Let me persuade all travellers to avoid this terrible...either dislocate their bones with broken pavements or fling them in muddy sand.' 4 A passage in a letter from Gray to Mason, dated Darlington, August 26,...

...three carts, broken down, in those eighteen miles of execrable memory. To Newcastle. Turnpike. — A more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged...support my chaise from overturning. Let me persuade all travelers to avoid this terrible country, which must either dislocate their bones with broken pavements,...

...passed three carts broken down in those eighteen miles of execrable memory." "To Newcastle. Turnpike — A more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged...with broken pavements, or bury them in muddy sand." From the third report of the Parliamentary Committee on Turnpikes and Highways, 1809, it appears that...

...three carts, broken down, in those eighteen miles of execrable memory." " To Newcastle. Turnpike. — A more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged...with broken pavements, or bury them in muddy sand." Even so much later as the year 1809, the roads answered to the description of Mr. Young. Mr. CW Ward,...

...three carts, broken down, in those eighteen miles of execrable memory." " To Newcastle. Turnpike. — A more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged...to avoid this terrible country, which must either dislocg.te their bones with broken pavements, or bury them in muddy sand." Even so much later as the...

...he was obliged to hire two men at one place to prevent his chaise from overturning. He says : — " Let me persuade all travellers to avoid this terrible...with broken pavements or bury them in muddy sand." Mr. Thomas Codrington, in his work on " The Maintenance of Macadamised Roads," says: — -"On the ordinary...

...Newcastle from the south seems to have been equally dangerous. " A more dreadful road," he says, " cannot be imagined. I was obliged to hire two men...with broken pavements, or bury them in muddy sand." The turnpike road from Chepstow to Newport was a rocky lane, " full of hugeous stones, as big as one's...

...the least sandy the pavement is discontinued, and the rutts and holes most execrable. I was forced to hire two men at one place to support my chaise from overthrowing, in turning out from a cart of goods overthrown and almost buried. Let me persuade all...

...three carts, broken down, in those eighteen miles of execrable memory." " To Newcastle. Turnpike. — A more dreadful road cannot be imagined. I was obliged...bones with broken pavements, or bury them in muddy eand." Even so much later as the year 1809, the roads answered to the description of Mr. Young. Mr....

...Newcastle from the south seems to have been equally dangerous. " A more dreadful road," he says, " cannot be imagined. I was obliged to hire two men...with broken pavements, or bury them in muddy sand." The turnpike road from Chepstow to Newport was a rocky lane, " full of hugeous stones, as big as one's...