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" Canterbury, which is one of the most extraordinary circumstances that the history of non-communication in this kingdom can furnish. The making the road was opposed — for what measure of common sense could ever be started that would not be opposed !... "
A review of the reports to the Board of agriculture - Page 426
by William Humphrey Marshall - 1817
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General View of the Agriculture of the County of Sussex

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...
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Common-place Book

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...
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Southey's Common-place Book: Choice passages

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...
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Southey's Common-place Book: Choice passages

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...
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Temple Bar, Volume 33

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...
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 10

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...
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A History of the Weald of Kent: With an Outline of the ..., Volume 2, Issue 2

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...
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A History of the Weald of Kent: With an Outline of the ..., Volume 2, Issue 2

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....
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The Geology of the Weald: (parts of the Counties of Kent, Surrey, Sussex ...

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...
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The Geology of the Weald: Parts of the Counties of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, and ...

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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