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Her Majesty's Mails
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William Lewins
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The
information
respecting
the
routes
taken
is
especially
interesting,
because
it
serves
to
show
that
even
at
this
early
period
arrangements
were
made
with
great
circumspection,
and
that
some
of
these
early
routes
existed,
with
only
trifling
modifications,
down
to
the
present
century,
and
to
the
time
of
railroads.
The
route
from
London
to
Berwick
is
shown
by
the
lists
of
posts
(or
stages)
laid
down
between
the
two
places
in
the
fifteenth
year
of
Queen
Elizabeth's
reign.
They
run
as
follows:--1.
London;
2.
Waltham;
3.
Ware;
4.
Royston;
5.
Caxton;
6.
Huntingdon;
7.
Stilton;
8.
Stamford;
9.
Grantham;
10.
Newark;
11.
Tookesford
(Tuxford);
12.
Foroby
(Ferriby);
13.
Doncaster;
14.
Ferry
Bridge;
15.
Wetherby;
16.
Bouroughbridge;
17.
Northallerton;
18.
Derneton
(Darlington);
19.
Durham;
20.
Newcastle;
21.
Morpeth;
22.
Hexham;
23.
Hawtwistle;
24.
Carlisle;
25.
Alnwick;
26.
Belford;
27.
Berwick.
For
three
centuries,
therefore,
the
High
North
Road
took
in
all
these
posts
with
the
exception
of
Tuxford.
A
considerable
diversion,
it
will
be
noticed,
was
made
at
Morpeth
towards
the
west,
in
order
to
take
in
the
then
important
towns
of
Hexham
and
Carlisle;
but
it
is
more
probable
that
the
direct
post-road
continued
north
through
Alnwick
to
Berwick,
and
that
the
west
road
was
only
a
kind
of
cross-post.
There
were
no
less
than
three
post
routes
to
Ireland
in
this
reign,
and
all
of
them
were
used
more
or
less.
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