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The 'Great North Road'

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schuee:
Living in Grantham I can remember my parents,grandparents talk about the traffic jams through the town centre when the Great North Road ran through.
I knew that it ran through Long Bennington, there is evidence their because the main road which runs through it is wider than you would expect for a normal village road.
The website has shown me a lot about the history of the Great North around the Grantham area which I did not know, a great find BTM.

Cheers
Schuee

Bush Tucker Man:

--- Quote from: "schuee" --- , a great find BTM.

Cheers
Schuee
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Thanks :oops:

See if you can find in your local library (or bookshop, if you want to buy it), this book;
The Great North Road;  A Guide For The Curious Traveller
I bought my copy about a year ago, it's a wonderful source of reference material
The diagrams are very Wainwright-ish (the famous Lakeland walker/climber)

tonycougar:
I remember travelling from Leeds to Sedgefield regularly when I was a boy, and I remember all those landmarks, aswell as travelling through Boroughbridge, I ended up living there for a while later on in life and it was a right trip down memory lane.

mmgemini:
Who remembers when Scotch Corner was only a lump of earth in the middle of the road and the A6108 to Richmond had a pub on the corner at that junction.

Bush Tucker Man:

--- Quote from: "mmgemini" ---Who remembers when Scotch Corner was only a lump of earth in the middle of the road

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I do know hat the proper name is Scots Corner after all the drovers at use to meet there to drive Cattle,Sheep & Geese down to the English markets

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