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Both Sheep Market and All Saints Street lead down to what was the Great North Road, but Stamford has since been bypassed. The town bus station is on the right, on the site of Stamford Castle.

The bridge carried the great North Road until Ernest Marples opened a much- needed bypass in 1962.

Another view along the Welland towards Town Bridge, over which the old Great North Road crossed into Lincolnshire.

Sandy was originally a modest Roman settlement on the Roman road between St Albans and Godmanchester; in the 18th century the town became important for its coaching inns servicing the Great North Road.

Handsome and dignified Georgian houses and villas line the leafy street.Visitors to the town seem to have been made up from two groups: travellers using the Great North Road, who stopped over just

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

Visitors to the town seem to have been made up from two groups: travellers using the Great North Road, who stopped over just long enough to sample the waters in the Pump Room before departing for more

Boroughbridge probably saw its best days when it was a coaching town for traffic on the Great North Road, and had no less than twenty-two inns.

It would be difficult to say now, without consulting early maps, exactly where 18th-century Whetstone began and finished on the Great North Road.

A stagecoach service operated on a daily basis from Leeds and back, and wealthy travellers using the Great North Road would stop over and sample the delights of the pump room.

A stagecoach service operated on a daily basis from Leeds and back, and wealthy travellers using the Great North Road would stop over and sample the delights of the pump room.

Moving south we cross the River Ivel by the Girtford Bridge to reach the town of Sandy on the Great North Road, the A1.

Visitors to the town seem to have been made up from two groups: travellers using the Great North Road, who stopped over just long enough to sample the waters in the Pump Room before departing for more

On the right is the Old England Hotel with its AA sign, built in the 1920s to cater for motorists and tourists using the Great North Road.

Both Sheep Market and All Saints Street lead down to what was the Great North Road, but Stamford has since been bypassed. The town bus station is on the right, on the site of Stamford Castle.

Seen from the north-west bank of the River Trent, the castle appears foreshortened; but the wall in this view is that half of the east curtain wall that survived the 1650s demolition, with the gatehouse

In the era of the stage coach, the George Hotel was classed as the best hotel on the Great North Road, and it is still one of the best in the area.

This view gives a clear example of the impact commercial motor traffic had on the Great North Road, prior to the building of the M1 motorway.

Newark enjoyed great prosperity in the 18th century through industrial growth and through its status as a coaching town on the Great North Road.

The Rose & Crown and the Whitehorse Hotel on the right were among the numerous inns which made this small town one of Hertfordshire's premier coaching centres, thanks to its position on the Great North

Thirsk has always been an important stopping place on the old Great North Road, and the Golden Fleece Inn, on the extreme right of the picture, was a coaching inn where horses were changed.

Thirsk has always been an important stopping place on the old Great North Road, and the Golden Fleece Inn, on the extreme right of the picture, was a coaching inn where horses were changed.

In the days before tarmac, the roads around Stamford were topped with limestone that made them dangerously slippery for cyclists; indeed, cycle guides of the late 19th century wrote off this stretch of

From Southwell the tour heads north-east back to the River Trent north of Newark and on to Sutton-on-Trent.