









7V«e Green Man, Waltham. 



VI.— THE YORK ROAD. 



THERE were two main roads to York in the old 

 coaching days. The first of these was measured from 

 Shoreditch, and went by way of Ware, Tottenham, and 

 Waltham ; Hatfield and Stevenage ; the second was 

 measured from Hicks's Hall, and went by way of 

 Barnet. At the Wheatsheaf Inn at Alconbury Hill, 

 down in Huntingdonshire, these two roads to York 

 became one and the same road ; but the Ware route 

 was four miles one furlong the shorter of the two. 



When we want to go to York now we breakfast at 

 half-past eight, if we arc wise, and catch the ten 

 o'clock Scotch express from King's Cross. Our grand- 

 fathers did not breakfast at all ; not because they had 

 no appetite at half-past eight, but because they had to 

 start from High Holborn at half-past six. 



