Wigstead in 1797 tells a tale very different from that of Leland. Instead of a “pretty street,” he found an entrance “by no means prepossessing the traveller in its favour—a confused mass of brick and tile rubbish piled together.” Birmingham he thought to be an objectionable place. “Enveloped in an almost impenetrable smoky atmosphere,” he says, “it is by no means an agreeable object to a picturesque eye.” END OF VOL. 1 _Printed by Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ltd., Lowloa and Aylesbury._ WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR. =The Brighton Road=: Old Times and New on a Classic Highway. =The Portsmouth Road=: and its Tributaries, To-day and in Days of Old. =The Dover Road=: Annals of an Ancient Turnpike. =The Bath Road=: History, Fashion, and Frivolity on an old Highway. =The Exeter Road=: The Story of the West of England Highway. =The Great North Road=: The Old Mail Road to Scotland. 2 Vols. =The Norwich Road=: An East Anglian Highway. =The Oxford Gloucester, and Milford Haven Road.= [_In the Press._ =Cycle Rides Round London.= ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES 1. Moved advertisement from the second page to the end. 2. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling. 3. Retained anachronistic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed. 4. Footnotes have been re-indexed using numbers. 5. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_. 6. Enclosed bold font in =equals=. 7. Superscripts are denoted by a caret before a single superscript character or a series of superscripted characters enclosed in curly braces, e.g. M^r. or M^{ister}. End of Project Gutenberg's The Holyhead Road Vol 1, by Charles G. Harper