From London by North Western Railway, as on preceding page, to PETERBOROUGH. (See p. 420.) Thence by Great Northern line, to From London. 1101 ON LEFT FROM LOND. 5 miles beyond, Peterborough, leave line of railway to Stamford and Melton Mowbray. Glinton. Market Deeping, 2 m. Crowland, 24 miles 891 Peakirk, Crowland, &c. 119 distant, a small town of (see p. 480.) The St. great antiquity. land to the eastward of it is said to be the lowest in the county, whence its appellation is derived. Pop. 1219. The church of St Peter 73 and St. Paul in Algarkirk| is an ancient structure, Proceed through the district of the Fens, an immense level tract which occupies parts of the counties of Lincoln, Cambridge, Norfolk, Suffolk, Huntingdon, and Northampton, extending about 50 miles from north to south, and 30 from east to west, and comprehending nearly 400,000 acres. This district is intersected by numerous artificial channels, by means of which it has been effectually drained, and converted, from a vast swamp, into a highly fertile and productive region. SPALDING St. (see p. 430.) 131 Pinchbeck. Gosberton; near it, Cressy Hall. Swineshead, 5 miles with a tower and five 703 Sutterton and Algarkirk 138 (see p. 430.) 140 Kirton. W. Skirbeck House. 144 25 m., by Tattershall. bells. St. 149 ON RIGHT FROM LOND. and HULL, as in CLXII. LONDON TO HULL, THROUGH CAMBRIDGE, ELY, PETERBOROUGH, AND BOSTON, BY RAILWAY, 200 Miles. From Hull. From London. ON LEFT FROM LOND. Waltham Abbey, 1 m. distant, derives its name from an Abbey of very ancient origin, which was enlarged by Harold, who was buried within its precincts. All that now remains of the building is a part of the west end of the Ladye Chapel, 186 184 school. Tottenham Place. Tottenham. Branch to Enfield, 3 m. Edmonton, rendered classic by Cowper's "John Gilpin." Forty Hall. Theobald's Park, Sir H. Meaux, Bart. Waltham Cross, an exquisite relic (see p. 381.) Cheshunt (see p. 381.) 16 Cheshunt Park. now used as the parochial 181 Broxbourne Junction St. 19 church. An ancient gate at some distance, partly built with Roman bricks, marks one of the en-. trances of the Abbey garden. Pop. of town 1851, 2329, and of parish, 4303. cr. river Lea, and enter Essex. Roydon St. Along valley of river Stort. Wormley. Hoddesdon, 23 m. Branch to Ware and Hertford, 7 miles. 1 mile distant on this branch is the Rye House, celebrated as the scene of the plot to which its name has become attached. Stanstead Abbots. Hunsdon House, 1 m., General F. Calvert. Eastwick. New Place; beyond, Gilston, once the pr perty of Ward, the 261 author of "Tremaine." Latton Priory. Harlow, 1 mile (see p. 174 162.) At High Laver, 4 m. distant, John Locke was buried. Hyde Hall, Earl of Roden. At Hatfield Broad Oak, 6 miles distant, are the remains of a Benedictine priory. Little Hallingbury. Great Hallingbury. |