Worcester's London Road: a tale of turnpikes and tollgates
THE thousands of people who travel every day down the steep descent of London Road towards Worcester city centre can be thankful they weren’t making the same journey in medieval times. Because then the highway was even more vertiginous. In fact, crosses were set up at the bottom to thank the Lord for getting down safely. Over the centuries, the route from the top of Red Hill to Sidbury Gate has seen many changes and the one used today is actually the line of an old turnpike coach road. Before that it ran a little to the south and can be traced almost all the way by a line of back l...
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