File:Railroadiana. A new history of England, or, Picturesque, biographical, historical, legendary and antiquarian sketches. Descriptive of the vicinity of the railroads (1838) (14572813689).jpg

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Title: Railroadiana. A new history of England, or, Picturesque, biographical, historical, legendary and antiquarian sketches. Descriptive of the vicinity of the railroads
Year: 1838 (1830s)
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Subjects: London. Birmingham railway England -- Description and travel Guidebooks
Publisher: London : Simpkin, Marshall and co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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from London to Aylesbury, which is part ofthe ancient Ikenild way. Its modern improvements are theGrand Junction Canal and the Railroad, and here may be seenthe four means of communication at one view. The canal isat this point distant forty miles from London, and whilst theboats require a day and a half to navigate from the City RoadBasin to Box-Moor, the Railroad train travels the same dis-tance in httle more than an hour. The village at the east end,on the canal, is called Two-Waters. One of the branchesof the river Thames, which has its source at Tring, called Bulbourne Head, falls into the Gade at this place and givesthe name to the village. Certain of the inhabitants of HemelHempstead have the privilege of grazing cattle on the Moor,and a circular iron badge placed upon their door-posts indicatesthe inhabitant who enjoys this privilege. In summer the breezefrom the south or w^est brings purity and health with it, butin the wnnter, with a strong touch of the east or north, there
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CHURCH OF HEMEL HEMPSTEAD. HEMEL HEMPSTEAD. 45 is a w*ind -which, as an old cottager expressed it, would skina feather. A tolerably agreeable road of two miles, takes youto Hemel Hempstead, and there you have not to choose betweenthe rival inns, the old and new Commercial, for the pro-prietors will already have secured your patronage, by sendingtheir own cars or coaches down to the Station, and driving youat once into their premises. We were fortunate enough tomeet with Mr. Deacon, whose coach is called the QueenDowager, and his inn the Kings Arms, the former con-veyed us safely to the latter, and right well pleased we werewith our fare during a sojourn of two days. The river Gade,on its way to join the Thames at Dorchester in Oxfordshire,runs thiough the valley, embellishing in its course the parkand seat of Sir Ashley Cooper, the former, open to visitors atall times, is reached by turning down a lane just beyond thenorthern extremity of the town, and crossing the river over awooden

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