The Road Through Harpenden

by Chris Reynolds

  

AN
ACCOUNT
OF ALL THE
ROADS

Measured in the Survey, at Sixteen Feet and a half to the Pole, Forty Poles to the Furlong, and Eight Furlongs to the Mile, containing Five Thousand Two Hundred and Eighty Feet.

From Hatfield to Wheathampsted thence to Harpenden, thence to Dunstable
 

M.

F.

P.

Leave Hatfield

00

4

18

To Bullstock-green

00

6

15

Stanborough-green

02

0

05

Brockitt Park

03

0

07

Leave the Park

03

7

25

Wheathamsted

05

6

27

Bennetts-Butts

08

4

31

Harpenden

08

6

30

Kingsbury-green

10

7

26

Pepperstock

13

0

20

Dunstable

19

0

00

From Luton to St. Albans
 

M.

F.

P.

To Harpenden

05

0

16

St. Albans

09

6

06

Map: edited from Oliver 1695 - From Four County Maps of Hertfordshire

Oliver's 1695 Map included an innovation - a table showing the routes between various towns, with the distances.

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