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THE EXETER ROAD 



aud public-houses, wliich liad long been profitably 

 occupied, are now almost destitute of business. 

 Formerly thirty stage coaches passed through the 

 village, now every coach has been taken off the road.' 

 The ' Southampton Eailroad,' referred to here, is of 

 course the London and South-Western Eailway, which 

 has drained this part of the road of its traffic, and 

 whose Winchfield station lies two miles away. 



KOADSIDE SCENE (AFTER ROWLANDSONJ. 



Before the crash of the '40's Hartley Eow pos- 

 sessed a thriving industry in the manufacture of 

 coaches, carried on by one Fagg, who was also land- 

 lord of the ' Bell Inn,' Holborn, and in addition horsed 

 several stages out of London. 



Some day the coming historian of the nineteenth 

 century will, in his chapter on travel, cite Hartley 

 Row as the typical coaching village, which was called 

 into existence by coaching, lived on coaching, and 

 with the death of coaching was stranded high and 

 dry in this dried-up channel of life. All the houses 



