• A10 Part 3: Cambridge to King’s Lynn

    Part 3 of the history along the A10 covers the road from Cambridge, through Ely to King’s Lynn.

  • A10 Part 2: M25 to Cambridge

    Part 2 of the history of the A10 road takes us from the M25 to Cambridge, and from the Roman road to today, when the Cambridge road doesn’t reach Cambridge.

  • A10 Part 1: Gracechurch Street to the M25

    The A10 is an old road with a complicated history. It runs for just over ninety-nine miles, from the City of London, through Cambridge to Kings Lynn. It’s a road with three distinct moods. This first episode follows it along its urban phase, from Gracechurch Street to the M25. The next will take us through…

  • History Along the A53: Buxton through the Potteries to Shrewsbury

    Though the A53 only covers some fifty-five miles, there is more history along it than you might expect. As a result, this post is slightly longer than some. The road is mostly rural, some of it dating back to the Romans, except for where it goes through Stoke-on-Trent, the historic centre of Britain’s pottery industry.…

  • The Land’s End Road: a history of the A30 – Part 2

    In the previous post, we followed the history of the A30 to the end of the seventeenth century. This post is about what happened next. Daniel Defoe was making his Tour Thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain1 in the 1720s. He describes a trip to Land’s End, but how did he get there? On…