Daniel Albone
GNR_20202022-11-14T11:28:11+00:00Daniel Albone’s family ran the Ongley Arms pub alongside the Great North Road in Biggleswade, just south of the bridge over the River Ivel. He became an entrepreneurial designer...
Edinburgh Coaching Inns
GNR_20202024-02-05T14:32:21+00:00Arguably it was the Great North Road and the development of coaching services which was the precursor to the emergence of coaching inns and hotels in Edinburgh...
York Coaching Inns
GNR_20202024-02-05T14:33:44+00:00York coaching inns flourished and had a major impact on the economic fortunes of the city for 200 years. The high point was after the road improvements associated...
The Angel Inn, Grantham
GNR_20202025-05-23T10:51:49+00:00The Angel Inn traces its roots back to a hostel built in 1203 by the Knights Templar; this was a military/religious order which supported those fighting the Crusades or...
The George, Stamford
GNR_20202024-02-05T14:34:53+00:00The George at Stamford vies with the Angel at Grantham as the country’s oldest surviving coaching inn. Its distinctive wooden arch over the Great North Road...
Baker Perkins
GNR_20202025-04-29T14:33:50+00:00Engineering company, Baker Perkins, operated an overnight Great North Road trunker service between its factories at Peterborough and on Tyneside...
Ermine Street
GNR_20202025-05-23T11:19:04+00:00The southern section of Ermine Street aligns closely with the Old North Road, merging with Great North Road near Godmanchester, before heading eastwards...
Lindisfarne
GNR_20202024-04-03T17:17:55+00:00The Holy Island of Lindisfarne lies 4 miles from the Great North Road between Berwick and Newcastle. The Northumberland coast is magnificent, and Lindisfarne is...
Buckden Palace
GNR_20202023-06-27T11:36:01+00:00Buckden Palace sits directly alongside the Great North Road. In medieval times it straddled the road in Buckden with the Bishop’s Palace and Little Park to...
St Paul’s Cathedral
GNR_20202024-01-16T17:15:23+00:00Saint Paul's Cathedral is not “on” the Great North Road – more one of its “bookends”. However, whether you define the London end of the road...