Speenhamland} } 55-3/4 Newbury } Church Speen 56-3/4 Hungerford (cross River Kennet) 64-1/2 Froxfield (cross River Kennet) 67 Marlborough 74-1/2 Fyfield 77 Overton 78 West Kennet (cross River Kennet) 79-1/4 Beckhampton Inn 81 Cherhill 84 Quemerford (cross tributary of River Marden) 86-1/4 Calne (cross River Calne) 87-1/4 Black Dog Hill 88-3/4 Derry Hill (Swan Inn) 90-3/4 Chippenham (cross River Avon) 93-1/4 Cross Keys 96-1/2 Pickwick ("Hare and Hounds" Inn) 97-1/4 Box 100-1/4 Batheaston 103-1/2 Walcot 104-1/2 Bath (G. P. O.) 105-3/4 The BATH ROAD I The great main roads of England have each their especial and unmistakeable character, not only in the nature of the scenery through which they run, but also in their story and in the memories which cling about them. The history of the Brighton Road is an epitome of all that was dashing and dare-devil in the times of the Regency and the reign of George the Fourth; the Portsmouth Road is sea-salty and blood-boltered with horrid tales of smuggling days, almost to the exclusion of every other imaginable characteristic of road history; and the story of the Dover Road is a very microcosm of the nation's history. Nothing strongly characteristic of England, Englishmen, and English customs but what you shall find a hint of it on the Dover Road. As for the Holyhead Road, it traverses the Midland territory of the fox-hunting and port-drinking squires, and reeks of toasts and conjurations of "no heel-taps;" the great North Road is an agricultural route pre-eminently; the Exeter Road the running-ground of some of the fleetest and best-appointed coaches of the Coaching Age; while the Bath Road was at one time the most literary and fashionable of them all.