In a span of some 90 miles, the road stretches from London Bridge to Cambridge and beyond, linking everything from glassy skyscrapers to grassy pastures before branching out to ancient settlements in Norfolk and Yorkshire.
The road then breached the defensive stone ramparts that surrounded Londinium, before taking a straight shot north. My stretch of the road, which runs behind my northeast London house, is unusually neighbourly for the British capital.
Most mornings—when the city is not in a pandemic lockdown —you can find me buying bananas from the Bengali grocery. Pounding this pavement with the curiosity of a foreigner has helped me to picture it not as a channel carrying people north and south, but as a lure, drawing them from west and east.
Yes, a road can be a destination, the point of travel itself. Many are—even those you can see from your bedroom window. By the Middle Ages, Londoners were starting from scratch.
Ever sturdier versions of London Bridge followed, ultimately shifting a hundred feet west of the original. The new thoroughfare headed farther uptown. The blocks they left behind became the quaint-sounding Fish Street Hill. Railway Road became the A A10 Location Map geo. Simon D writes:.
The section between Ware and Puckeridge was bypassed to the east, which has brought much needed relief to the villages of Wadesmill, High Cross and Colliers End.
On the former A10, opposite St Edmunds College to the south of Puckeridge, you can see a cast iron marker post which indicates where the A10 crosses the Greenwich Meridian. The bypass opened on 8th October , being detrunked two years later. Navigation menu Personal tools Log in. Namespaces Page Discussion Discover. Views Read View source View history. This page was last modified on 17 July , at Location Map geo. View gallery Monument, London TQ Cambridge , Ely.
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