Britannia, volume the first, or, An illustration of the Kingdom of England and dominion of Wales by a geographical and historical description of the principal roads thereof, actually admeasured and delineated in a century of whole-sheet copper-sculps : accomodated with the ichnography of the several cities and capital towns, and compleated by an accurate account of the more remarkable passages of antiquity : together with a novel discourse of the present state / by John Ogilby ...

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The Road from. KING'S LYN cō Norf to ••ARWICH cō Essex By JOHN OGILBY Esq^r His Ma^ties Cosmographer Containing 76 miles 1 Furlong viz^t. From LYN to Swa••sham: 15: m to Stanford 9. to Thetford 7.5 to: Icksworth: 9:4:to: Stow-Market 11: to: Ipswich: 12: m and to HARWICH including y^e: Ferry: 12.

The Road from King's-Lyn in Norfolk To Harwich in Essex.

• 1. THe Point of Bearing S. E. b S.
• 2. The Direct Horizontal Distance 59 M.
• 3. The Vulgar Computation 59 M.
• 4. The Dimensuration 76’1.

From Lyn	Comp.	Measure.
to Swaffham	12	12	15’0	15’0
Stanford	07	19	09’0	24’0
Thetford	06	25	07’5	31’5
Icksworth	07	32	09’4	41’1
to Stow-Market	08	40	11’0	52’1
Ipswich	09	49	12’0	64’1
Harwich	10	59	12’0	76’1
	59		76’1

Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex Include the whole Road, and the Ouse-Parva, Orwel and Stour are the Principal Rivers crost over: Affording generally a hard Gravelly way, and a good Road, the Lanes here and there a little washy, but not incomoding the Traveller, who meets all along with good Entertainment, and oftentimes very pleasant Prospects.

Forward Turnings to be avoided.

• At 1’4. the Right acute to Downham, &c.
• At 10’5. the Left acute at the entring Norfolk.
• At 14’7. in Swaffham the Left to Fakenham
• At 19’2. the Left acute.
• At 24’2. the Right to Brandon at the end of Stanford.
• At 31’5. the forward way in Thetford.
• At 40’2. the Left acute.
• At 51 Miles in Comefford, the Right acute.
• At 55’1. the Left in Needham to Cod∣nam.
• At 65’6. at Bone Bridg the forward way to Colchester.

KIng's-Lyn We have Illustrated in LONDON to Lyn pag. 85. Concerning which We may here farther advise, that the distinction of King's-Lyn was added in Commemoration of their Loyalty Temp. K. Joh. and Henr. 3. By the first of which it was Incorporated, and by the latter its Privileges Augmented: It Enjoys at present a good Maritin Trade, being well frequented by Merchants and Tradesmen.

We begin our Computation at the Market-Place, whence taking your way through the South Gate, and passing on a Causeway you proceed through Hardwick at 1’5. a small Village, then leaving Runton Church on the Right and Middleton Hall on the Left, you pass through Middleton at 4’2. another small Village, and by an old Castle on the Left, through East-Winch at 5’2. another little Village; whence a straight open way brings you at 7’1. to a Stone-bridg over a Brook, and presently after leads you through Bilney a small Village.

At 9’2. crossing 2 small Rills you leave Nerboro Church 3 Furlongs on the Right, and at 10’3. come to Long-bridg over the River, which falling into the Owse at Lyn aforesaid, bears the Name of the Town; 2 Furlongs farther you pass through Ner∣ford a small Village, and at 12 Miles ascend 3 Furlongs, thence over a Vale a straight way conveys you at 14’6. to Swaffham a good Market Town, in Extent 3 Furlongs. [For which vid. LONDON to Wells and Bury pag. 103.]

From Swaffham 3 repeated descents bring you at 18 Miles to an ascent of 3 Furlongs, where you leave Cley Church a Mile on the Right, and at 19’2. Great Kirsingham near as much on the Left; then at 21 Miles you pass by Hilboro Church and Hall a little distant on the Left, and at 22’2. Bedney a Mile on the same hand on the other side of the Rill, and after by Langforth Church and Hall a small distance on the Right, at 23 M. you cross a brook or Rill, a branch of the Owse uniting with it above Downham, and at 24’1. come to Stanford a small Village with one good Inn in it.

Hence a straight and open way by Toftes Church about 4 Furlongs on the Right, after by a ridg of Hills and Croxton Park on the same hand leads you at 29’7. through

Croxton a Village of 2 Furlongs, where you leave Croxton high Trees on the Right, (which yield a very fine Prospect especially towards Lyn) and Lylverston Church on the Left, and by Clays Lodg on the same hand enter Thetford at 31’3. an Antient Borough and Market Town, seated on the little Owse, which having Discourst in LONDON to NORWICH pag. 91. We have only this more to say of it; That in the Confessor's Time it Numbr'd 947 Burgesses, and in the Conqueror's Time 720 Mansions, the chief Magistrate being a Consul: It still shows an high Mount which has been Wall'd about and Fenc'd with a double Rampire, and has at this day the Keeping of the Lent Assizes for the County.

In the Town you turn short on the Left and cross the said little Owse, which with the Waveny rising near one another about 10 Miles East of this place, seperate the Coun∣ties of Norfolk and Suffolk which last you here Enter; whence at 33’6. crossing a Brook, and at 34’3. leaving Barnham a small Village on the Left, you pass by a Pond on the Right, at 36 Miles leave Euston Church and Hall, the Earl of Arlington's a Mile on the Left, and at 38’2 Hinnyton on the Right and Froyston on the Left, each 4 Furlongs distant, passing through Icksworth-Thorp a small Village, at 39’2. opposite to which is Euston Church without a Steeple 2 Furlongs on the Right; whence at 40’5. you pass by some Houses contiguous on the Left, and 3 Furlongs farther enter Icksworth alias Ixworth a very good Town, Extending this way not much, lying principally South-West on the transverse Road between Bury and Yarmouth, an Antient Place suppos'd by the Name to Comemorate somewhat of the Iceni; It Enjoys an indifferent Market on Fridays, and shews the Reliques of an Antient Priory; and within these few years Roman Coyns have been here dig'd up.

Leaving Icksworth you pass by Fackenham Church and Hall on the Right, the one a Mile, the other about half a Mile distant, and at 46’7. through a small Village part of Stow Langtoft, the Church 4 Furlongs on the Left, then at 43’7. you leave Litlow House on the Right, and at 45 Miles Neton Church 4 Furlongs on the Left, after passing be∣tween Wulpit a Market Town near a Mile on the Right, and Emswel Church almost ad∣jacent on the Left.

Hence by some scattering Houses on the Road, at 48’4. you pass through Wetherden a small Village, and 5 Furlongs farther Haley-Newstreet another Village of 2 Furlongs Ex∣tent; at the Entrance into which the Road from Bury falls in on your Right, thence an indifferent straight Road conveys you at 51’7. to Stow Market Extending 4 Furlongs on the Road; a well frequented Market-Town. [As in Huntingdon to Ipswich pag. 145.] Whence crossing the Orwel you pass Comesford at 53 Miles, Needham at 55’1. Codnam at 57’5. Barham at 58’7. and Cleydon at 60 Miles, the account of all which you have in the foresaid Road from Huntingdon to Ipswich pag. 145.

At the Entrance into Claydon the Road from NORWICH falls in on your Left, from which (leaving Claydon Hall a little on the Right) a direct way altogether Enclos'd as this last part of the Road has likewise been, brings you at 63’5. to Ipswich, at the Entrance into which you fall in with the Road from Colchester on the Right, and upon that Road being part of LONDON to Yarmouth, We have already Treated of it pag. 107.

From the Corn-Hill in Ipswich, down King's-street, you come at 64’5. to Stoke Bridg, over the Gippe or Orwel, pass through that part of the Town call'd Stoke, and by St. George's Chapel now Ruinous, and some Alms-Houses on the Left, at 65’2. come to the Bank of the River, and 3 Furl. farther to Bone Bridg, where Ends the Liberty of the Corporation; and bearing to the Left along the Bank of the River, pass by Freston, leaving the River at 67’1. and Entring the Lanes on the Right, an Included way conveys you by a Turret about 2 Furlongs distant on the Left, and Chempton about 6 Furlongs on the same hand, and a small Gravel-Pit at 70’6.

Thus by Averton Hall and Park a small distance on the Right, you come at 73’7. to a part of Shotley, the Church lying half a Mile to the Left; and at 74’4. (by the Beacon on the Right) to the Ferry House: Here you Ferry over the River, which at this place is about a Mile broad, but upon a South-East Line to Harwich a Mile and half; a well For∣tifi'd Sea-Port and Market Town. [As in LONDON to Harwich pag. 37.]

Backward Turnings to be avoided.

• 1. 9 Furl. beyond Averton Park, the Right acute.
• 2. In Cleydon the Right to Norwich.
• 3. At the end of Hawley Newstreet, the Left to St. Edmonds-Bury.
• 4. In Thetford the forward way.

Notes

• Counties past through. Rivers crost over.
• Quality of the Way.
• Acute Turnings to be avoided.
• King's-Lyn S. b. E.
• Hardwick 1’5. [4 m. E. S. E.]
• Middleton 4’2. East Winch 5’2.
• Bilney 7’3.
• [10’3. S. E.] Nerford 10’6.
• Swaffnam 15 m. [16’1. S.]
• [20’5. S. E.]
• Stanford 24 m.
• Croxton 29’7.
• Thetford 31’5. S.
• Icksworth Thorp 39’2
• Icksworth 41’1.
• [44’5. S. E.]
• Wetherden 48’4. [48’5. S. b E.] Haley Newstreet 49’1. Stow Market 52 m.
• Comesford 53 m. S. E. b E. Needham 55’1. Codnam 57’5. Barham 58’7. Cleydon 60 m.
• Ipswich 64.1.
• Bone Bridg 65’5. S. E. b S.
• Harwich 76’1.