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Our journey up the Great North Road ends here.

The Black Swan Inn would have been a popular resting place for the cattle drovers who used the Bullock Road.

To the west of Castor lies Ermine Street, a Roman road; excavations have shown that the village is built over a large Roman estate.

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.

Owned by British Railways, a steam engine is shown hauling a goods train north on the east coast main line.

Newark's position on the Great North Road and the River Trent attracted industry including flour milling, maltings, brewing, an iron works, leather working, and even a glue factory.

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.

It is hard to believe that the arched bridge, built in 1797 by John Carr of York, used to carry all the main Great North road traffic.

In more modern times the town was a major coaching post on the great North Road, and many fine inns survive here.

This seven-arched road bridge was built in 1775 to carry the Great North Road over the river. It replaced earlier crossings dating from 1190.

The village was an important staging point on the Great North Road.

Bawtry was once an important coaching stop on the old Great North Road, where horses were changed on the journey north to Scotland.

Skeeby was once on the trade route from the Great North Road to Richmond, just two miles further west.

Bearing in mind that this was the Great North Road , the A1, which now by-passes the town, the scene is remarkably tranquil.

Stirling Corner and past Mill Hill Golf Club bordering Thistle Wood and Scratch Wood (a rural name now adopted by the local motorway service station), and take a moment to reflect on a pre-dual carriageway Great North

There are three village greens in Catterick, the village on the old A1 Great North Road which most people associate with the nearby army garrison.

This village is just one mile from Boston Spa and even less from the Great North Road.

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.

The George Hotel on the left, a very large coaching inn on the old Great North Road built in 1780, has now been successfully converted into The George Shopping Centre.

Once an important coaching town on the Great North Road, Wetherby went into decline for a number of years as long-distance stagecoach travel lost out to the railways.

This village is just one mile from Boston Spa and even less from the Great North Road.

This inn on the Great North Road was built in 1642 from the local limestone. It has a central carriageway and two wings; at the rear they formed an open courtyard with stables and a barn.

In more modern times the town was a major coaching post on the great North Road, and several fine inns survive here.

Reflecting the town's original location on that highway beloved of cyclists, the Great North Road, the sign to the rear of the memorial promises 'Cycles Stored and Repaired'.