| Board of Agriculture (Great Britain) - 1808 - 586 pages
...turnpikeroad at Horsham, as is very rarely to be met with : the present road to London was made in 1756 ; before that time it was so execrably bad, that whoever...! It was no sooner completed than rents rose from 7.?. to Us. per acre: nor is there a gentleman in the country who does not acknowledge and date the... | |
| Robert Southey - 1849 - 650 pages
...sun, or removed from an unfavourable wind. " THE present road from Horsham to London was made in 1756. Before that time it was so execrably bad, that whoever...started that would not be opposed? It was no sooner compleated than rents rose from 7*. to lls. per acre."— YOUNG'S Survey of Sussex, p. 418. " WHEN... | |
| Robert Southey - 1849 - 656 pages
...or removed from an unfavourable wind. " Тнв present road from Horsham to London was made in 1756. Before that time it was so execrably bad, that whoever...started that would not be opposed? It was no sooner compleated than rents rose from 7s. to 11». per acre." — YOUNG'S Survey of Sussex, p. 418. " WHEN... | |
| Robert Southey - 1849 - 610 pages
...sun, or removed from an unfavourable wind. " THE present road from Horsham to London was made in 1756. Before that time it was so execrably bad, that whoever...most extraordinary circumstances that the history of non -communication in this kingdom can furnish. The making the road was opposed, for what measure of... | |
| George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1871 - 588 pages
...of Somerset. He says : " The present road from Horsham to London was made in 1756. Before that tune it was so execrably bad that whoever went on wheels...non-communication in this kingdom can furnish. The making of the road was opposed, for what measure of common sense could ever be started that would not be opposed... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1864 - 802 pages
...road, by which so few people now travel, was made in 1756. Young, in his Survey of Sussex, says that, " before that time, it was .so execrably bad, that whoever...in this kingdom can furnish. The making the road," he adds, " was opposed — for what measure of common sense could ever be started that would not be... | |
| Robert Furley - 1874 - 530 pages
...the Weald. t He records that the Turnpike Road from Horsham to London was made in 1750, and that " before that time it was so execrably bad that, whoever...went on wheels were forced to go round by Canterbury (sic j. which is one of the most extraordinary circumstances that the history of non-communication... | |
| Robert Furley - 1874 - 536 pages
...the Weald. t He records that the Turnpike Road from Horsham to London wai made in 1750, and that " before that time it was so execrably bad that, whoever went on wheels were forced to go round by < \mtorbury (tic). 660 Emd the tolls to be charged on them, devoted their time '•'"•"'• x.\":v.... | |
| William Topley, Henry William Bristow - 1875 - 540 pages
...undoubtedly were, this description . is surely overdrawn ; as is probably the following also : — " There is such an instance of the benefit of a turnpike-road...on wheels, were forced to go round by Canterbury." REV. A. YODNG, Agriculture of Sussex, p. 418, of ed. 1808. for a packsaddle, and, leaving his cart... | |
| William Topley - 1875 - 542 pages
...turnpike-road at Horsham, as is very rarely to be met with : the present road to London was made in 1756 ; before that time it was so execrably bad, that whoever...on wheels, were forced to go round by Canterbury." REV. A. YOUNG, Agriculture of Sussex, p. 418, of ed. 1808. for a packsaddlc, and, leaving his cart... | |
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