_Long stretches of the roads themselves are altered, with the growth of towns, into something new and strange, and where Terror stalked starkly in days of yore and Romance sped, flaunting, by, smug suburbs spread their vistas of red-brick, paved, and kerbed and lighted, and only the doctor, the collectors of rates and taxes, and the cries of the evening newspaper-boys stir the pulses of the inhabitants. The tragedies that sometimes await the doctor’s visits are a poor substitute for the soul-stirring days of old—they are too domestic: and that occasional inability to meet the demands of the tax-gatherer and the rate-collector which even the most respectable suburbs occasionally know is not tragedy in the inspiring sort._ _The pilgrim of the roads therefore finds his account in the past; and it is to illustrate the long leagues for him that these pages are wrought_ _out of long-forgotten things. Such an one, cycling, perchance, down the first few tramway-infested miles and cleansing himself after the almost inevitable muddy skid, may make shift to call a Tapleian philosophy to his aid, and exclaim with gratitude: “After all, it is an improvement upon two hundred years ago. Why, if I had been travelling here_ THEN, _I should probably have been robbed and beaten—perhaps even murdered—by the highwaymen!_” CHARLES G. HARPER, PETERSHAM, SURREY, _October, 1907_. THE MANCHESTER AND GLASGOW ROAD LONDON TO MANCHESTER MILES London (General Post Office) to Islington (the “Angel”) 1-1/4 Highgate Archway 4-1/4 East End, Finchley 5-3/4 Brown’s Wells, Finchley Common (“Green Man”) 7 North Finchley: “Tally-ho Corner” 7-1/2 Whetstone 9-1/4 Greenhill Cross 10-1/4 Barnet 11-1/4 South Mimms 14-1/2 Ridge Hill 16 London Colney 17-1/2 (Cross River Colne.) St. Albans (“Peahen”) 20-3/4 Redbourne 25 Friar’s Wash 27-1/2 Markyate 29 Dunstable (“Crown”) 33-1/2 Hockliffe 37-1/2 Woburn 42 Woburn Sands 43-3/4 Wavendon 45-1/4 Broughton 47-1/2 Newport Pagnell 50-1/2 (Cross River Ouse.)