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This is Main Road, and it is full of local limestone-built houses. Originally it was the Great North Road, and had numerous inns.

This is Main Road, and it is full of local limestone-built houses. Originally it was the Great North Road, and had numerous inns.

Looking north, this view shows the old Great North Road before the new A1 bypass. Note the bollards in the centre of the road - an early form of traffic calming - which were subsequently removed.

In the heyday of Stevenage, at the start of the 19th century, up to twenty stagecoaches a day passed along this stretch of the Great North Road.

During the 18th and 19th centuries, Thirsk was one of the posting stations serving the Great North Road; The Fleece was the main coaching inn.

Thirsk is perhaps best known today for its racecourse, where the first races were held in 1855, but it was formerly an important staging post on the Great North Road between London and Edinburgh.

During the 18th and 19th centuries, Thirsk was one of the posting stations serving the Great North Road; The Fleece was the main coaching inn.

Historically the Great North Road made Stilton a busy place, though here in the 1950s it looks rather quiet. A huge Bell sign marks the ancient stone inn.

The journey took over thirty hours, and was an acceptable alternative to being shaken and bounced along the Great North Road in a mail-coach.

Felton stands on the north bank of the Coquet, and it was here that the Great North Road once crossed the river by way of the old bridge featured in the picture.

Well-designed bollards and street signs front a typical road-house at the junction of the Great North Road with the lesser east-west Elstree to Chipping Barnet Road.

Returning to the Great North Road, we come to Buckden.

Boroughbridge probably saw its best days when it was a coaching town for traffic on the Great North Road and had no fewer than twenty-two inns. This picture shows the 14-bed Three Greyhounds Hotel.

Inns and restaurants such as the Old Plough and the White Horse (left) served the travelling public on the Great North Road until a bypass was built for the A1 to the west of the village.

Further along the Great North Road we find the Wheatsheaf pub facing the green, and the obelisk of the war memorial. In the distance are a number of shops, including the Eskimo.

The White Hart Inn at Wadworth, south of Doncaster, was once an important stopping place on the old Great North Road.

Positioned alongside the old course of the Great North Road, the unusual and impressive 'Bottle Lodges' at the entrance to Burghley Park must have been a familiar sight to travellers approaching Stamford

The small market town of Belford was once a coaching stop for travellers on the Great North Road.

Wetherby lies on the Great North Road and was once an important stopping point for coaches. In this picture, the River Wharfe flows placidly under the arches of the ancient bridge.

This large village, just off the ancient Roman Road of Dere Street, later the Great North Road and the A1, lies near the Durham border west of Darlington.

Situated just off the old Great North Road (the Roman Dere Street and the modern B6275), Aldbrough St John takes its name from the parish church.

Ferrybridge was a rendezvous point for the gentry travelling up the Great North Road. Ferrybridge had Yorkshire's largest pottery, which was founded in 1792 and was part-owned by Ralph Wedgwood.

The Old Lion and Lamb was formerly a coaching inn, one of the oldest posting houses on the Great North Road, and associated with the Bishops of Lincoln's palace at Buckden Towers.

Much of 18th-century Stamford's trade came from its location on the Great North Road, and it had numerous coaching inns.