By 1848, the road system consisted of forty-foot-wide highways of level gravel that extended to every village and island in the nation. The courts had only recently declared this practice remediable. If the hole was disguised by rainwater, a traveler’s horse could disappear into it. Occasionally a peasant dug a hole in the middle of the road to obtain mud to make bricks. Rain-soaked wheel ruts and eroding banks made long-distance travel impossible for considerable periods of the year. A few cobblestoned streets in well-off villages punctuated long stretches of dirt track between towns. N 1726, the roads of Britain were mire and muck. T hom a s B a bi ng t on M ac au l a y, The History of England from the Accession of James II, 1843 The inhabitant of the town would not recognise his own street. The country gentleman would not recognise his own fields. HC260.C3G85 2011 388.10941-dc22 2011014354Ĭould the England of 1685 be, by some magical process, set before our eyes, we should not know one landscape in a hundred or one building in ten thousand. Infrastructure (Economics)-Great Britain. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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