Some 170 years after it was published, Bradshaw had again proved invaluable in guiding us on our journey through Britain. With it we’d marvelled at the extraordinary Victorian achievements, but also celebrated what’s still so exciting about modern Britain. With the last of our journeys at an end and the team finally heading back to their homes, it was with surprising relish that our thoughts turned to where we could go next …
INDEX
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A
acid rain 97
Acts of Union (1800) 146
Adventure 202
Agassiz, Louis 188
Albert, Prince 179, 211, 226
American Civil War 36
Arboretum, Derby 102–4
Arkwright, Richard 99
Armstrong, Neil 135
Arndale Centre bombing (1996) 36
Around the World in Eighty Days (Verne) 34
Augustin, St 259
Aylesbury 109–10
Aylesbury ducks 110
Aylesford 250
Ayr 172, 175, 178
B
Baedecker Blitz 253–5
Bage, Charles 153
Balmoral 179
Barber, Colin 160
Barclay’s Bank 241
Bath 62, 253
spas 62–7, 64–5, 66
bathing machines 258–9
Batley 214–17
Battle 265
Beadles, Burlington Arcade 232
Beale, Benjamin 258
Beeching, Sir Richard (Dr) 73
Beeching cuts 37, 70, 73
‘Belmont Rattler’ 10
Bempton 49
Ben Nevis 188–9, 189
Ben Nevis Observatory 188–9
Betjeman, John 113
Betws-y-Coed artists’ colony 164
Birch, Eugenius 225
Birch, James 33
bird population decline, North Sea 49
Blackpool 120–3, 121
Blackpool Belle 120–3
Blackpool Tower 122–3, 123
Blaenau Ffestiniog 163, 164, 165
Blake, William 252
Blue Diamonds rapper sword dancers 205, 205
Bolton Abbey 38, 40–1
bone dust (bone meal) 159
Bonnie Prince Charlie 135, 179, 191, 192
Boots the chemist 42–3
Border reivers 135
Boucher, Sir Thomas 96
Bourne, Jon 159–60
Bournville 105–8
Box Tunnel 56, 62, 63
Boyne, Battle of 191
Bradshaw, George 10–12, 13, 16, 17, 22, 34, 67, 85
Bradshaw’s Descriptive Railway Hand-Book 10–13, 16–19, 18, 19, 22, 34,
Journey 1 28, 32, 38, 45, 46, 49, 52,
Journey 2 56, 59, 62, 67, 73, 74, 79, 80, 83,
Journey 3 92, 97, 98–9, 102, 104, 109, 110, 113, 116, 117
Journey 4 120, 123, 132, 135, 136–7, 139
Journey 5 146, 150, 153, 154, 159, 160, 161, 163, 165, 168–9
Journey 6 172, 175, 178, 179, 184, 188, 192
Journey 7 196–7, 202, 205, 208, 210, 211, 217, 219
Journey 8 222, 224–5, 228, 230, 233, 234, 237, 238
Journey 9 244, 248, 252–3, 255, 260, 264, 265
Bradshaw’s Maps of Inland Navigation 34
breweries, Burton 102–3, 104, 104–5
Bridlington 46
Brighton 222–6, 241
Bristol 67–70
Bristol Temple Meads station 56, 68–9, 70, 70
Britannia, Royal Yacht 180
Britannia Bridge 146, 146–7, 168–9
British and Commonwealth Museum 70
British Temperance Movement 120
Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey 230
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom 56, 57, 59, 62, 67, 70, 74, 75, 80, 247
Brunel, Marc Isambard 247
Bulmer’s factory 148
Burlington Arcade, London 230–2, 230–1
Burns, Robert 174, 175, 180
Burns Night 175
Burton-on-Trent 104–5
Buxton 92–6, 98, 105
C
Cadbury, George 106, 108
Cadbury, Richard 107, 108
Cadbury’s chocolate 105–8
locomotive 108
Cadman, Robert 153–4
Caledonian forest 182–3
Callander and Oban Railway 183
Calton, Glasgow 137
Cambridge football rules 235–7
Cambridge University 234–7
Cambridge University’s Football Club 235, 235–7
Canterbury 252–5, 254
carbon capture 202
Carlisle 124, 135
Caroline of Brunswick 222
cast iron 153, 154–8, 160
Cavendish, Lord George 230, 232
Central London Railway (Central Line) 232–3
Chalk Tower lighthouse 49
channel tunnel 262
Chatham dockyard 248–50, 249
Cheddar Gorge 72–3, 73–4
Cheddar Man 73–4
Cheshire cheese 159–60
Cheshire pastures 158, 159
Chester and Holyhead Railway 146, 160, 168
Chester station 146
Chirk 155–9
Chirk aqueduct 155–8, 156–7
Chirk Castle 159
Churchill, Winston 160, 191–2, 260
cider apples 148
Cinque Ports 260, 264, 265
Lord Wardens 260
City of Dublin Steam Packet Company 146
clay mines, Cornwall 80
Cleese, John 74
Clifton Suspension Bridge 67, 71
Clyde Valley orchards 139
Clydeside shipbuilding 179–80, 180–1
CO2 emissions 97–8
coal industry 196–202, 198, 199, 200–1, 204
Coalbrookdale 153, 154–5
Cod War, Third (1975) 45–6
Coleridge, Samuel 132
Colman’s Mustard 239, 241
Cologne 253–5
commandos 191–2
Coniston Water 130–1
Conwy railway bridge 163, 168
Conwy Valley line 163–4
Cook, Captain James 210
Cornwall 80–9
Cornwell, Hugh 73
Corrour station 185–8
cotton industry 12, 28, 33, 34–6, 34–5, 36, 99
Preston riots and strike 120
Coventry 109
Cox, David 164
‘Crab and Winkle’ line 255
Crianlarich 182, 183
cricket-ball manufacturing, Tunbridge Wells 252, 253
Crimean War 233
Cromer 240–1, 241
Cromford 99
Cromford Canal 102
Cromwell, Oliver 33
Croydon, Merstham and Godstone Iron Railway 226
Crystal Palace 226–9, 226–7, 228
Culloden, battle of (1746) 134, 135, 179, 191, 192
Cuthbert, St 208
Cutty Sark 179–80
D
Darby, Abraham I 154
Darby, Abraham III 155
Darlington 209
Dart, River 75–9
Darwin, Charles 188, 229
Davy, Sir Humphrey 196
Dawlish to Teignmouth 74
De Maison, George 110
Deal 260–2, 261, 262–3
Dean, Chris 97–8
Dee railway bridge disaster (1846) 160
Denny’s of Dumbarton 180
Dent station 129, 129–32
Denton 37
Derby 102–4, 217
Devonshire, Dukes of 38, 92
Dickens, Charles 241
dinosaur reconstructions, Crystal Palace 228, 229
Dissolution of the Monasteries 42
Ditherington flax mill 152, 153
Dixon, Tom 42–3
Dracula (Stoker) 34, 210
Dracula’s Seat, Whitby 210
‘drifting’ 96
Duguid, Stuart 178
Dunhill, George 42
Durant, Judith 109
Durham 205–9
Durham Cathedral 205, 206–7, 208, 208
Dymchurch 262
E
East London Railway Company 248
Eccles 30, 32–3
Eccles cakes 32, 32–3
Eden Project 80–1
Edinburgh 136, 138–43, 191
Edmonds, Ian 33
Edward I 159, 161
electricity 202, 225
Ellesmere Canal 158
Ely Cathedral 236, 237
Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway 37–8, 39
emigration 28–9, 29
Endeavour 210
Enfield 233–4
Environment Agency 132
Euston station, London 116
evacuations 110–13, 111
F
Failsworth Hats 37
Fairbairn, William 163
Fens drainage 237
Feschini, Tony 128
Festival of Empire (1911) 229
Ffestiniog Railway 164–5, 165
Filey 49–52
firestone quarrying, Godstone 226
First World War 59, 120, 136, 164, 182, 218, 224, 229, 260
fishing industry
Filey 49–52
Hastings 265
Hull 45–6
St Ives 88
Fitzherbert, Maria 222
Flamborough Head 46, 47, 49
Flamborough lighthouse 48, 49
Flint castle 160, 161
Folkestone 262
foot and mouth disease 150
Football Association 237
Forestry Commission 183
Forster, Fred 205
Fort William 172, 183, 185, 188, 189–91
Forth Bridge 96, 140–1, 142, 143
Forth Street Works, Newcastle 196
fox hunting, Melton Mowbray 219
Fraser, Simon, 17th Lord Lovat 192
Fry, Elizabeth 238
G
Gainsborough, Thomas 252
Gatwick airport 226
Geneva Convention 160
George IV 179, 222–4
Gladstone, William 208
Glasgow 136–9, 172, 179
Glass, Ron 59
Gledhill, Ian 20–1
Glenfinnan Viaduct 190–1, 191
Godlee, Francis 34
Godstone 226
gold mining, Grampians 183
Gott, Peter 134–5
Gotthard base tunnel 62
Gough, Richard 73
Grant, Peter 29, 30
Great Britain 67
Great Eastern Hotel Masonic temple 233
Great Eastern Railway 234
Great Exhibition (1851) 226, 233
Great Fire of London 116
Great Northern Railway 113
Great Orme Tramway 162–3, 163
Great Western Railway (GWR) 56–9, 74, 88
Swindon works 56–8, 60–1
Greathead, Henry 202, 203–4
Greenwich 244–7, 262
Gretna Green 135–6
Gretna munitions factory 136, 137
Gristhorpe Man 52–3, 53
Gurney’s Bank 238, 241
H
Haakon, King of Norway 180
Hadfield, George 209
Hadrian’s Wall 204
haggis 175–8
Hansard 209
Harbour, Dominic 150
Harold, King 264
Harrogate 214
Harry Potter films 191
Hartwell House 109–10
Harwich-Zeebrugge ferries 260
Hastings 264, 265
hat industry, Denton 37
Heigh, Ian 143
Henry VIII 248, 260
Herdwick sheep 133, 134–5
Hereford Cathedral 150–3
Hereford cattle 149–50
Hogwarts Express 191
Holiday Line 54–88
Holyhead 146, 169
Hood, HMS 180
Hopkins, Rob 79
hop-picking, Kent 250, 250–1
horse racing, Newmarket 234
Houses of Parliament 13, 117, 234
‘hue and cry’ 83
Hull 43–6
Huskisson, William 30, 32
Hyde Park 226
Hythe and New Romney miniature railway 262
I
ICI 160
Industrial Revolution 92, 97, 99, 153, 154, 155, 196, 205, 218, 222, 226
Inverailort House training centre 192
Irish Mail 146, 146–7, 169
iron bridge, Coalbrookdale 155, 155
iron industry 154
Irving, Henry 210
Irwell River, Manchester 34–5
J
Jacobites 189–91, 192
James, St 84
James II 191
Jessop, William 158
jet, Whitby 211, 211
Jockey Club 234
Jones, Barbara 168
Julius Caesar 262
K
Keelan, Liam 16
kelp 172
Kendall, Ian 49
Kent 67, 244–65
King’s College Chapel, Cambridge 234
King’s Cross station, London 113, 116, 210
King’s Head, Ivinghoe 110
King’s Lynn 237
Kingswear branch line 75, 76–7
Kirkcaldy 10
L
lace-making, Nottingham 218
‘Lady of the Lake’ 130–1
Lake District 120, 130–1, 132–5, 133
Lardner, Dr Dionysius 62
Law, Benjamin 214–17
lead poisoning 67
Ledbury 146–9
Lee, Rev. William 218
Lee-Enfield rifle 233–4
Lewis, Camilla 16
lifeboats 202–4
Lime Street station, Liverpool 28
liquorice 42–3, 44
Liverpool 12, 160, 28–30
Liverpool & Manchester Railway 26–37, 255
Liverpool Street station, London 233
Livesey, Joseph 120
Lizard Point 202
Llandudno 161–3, 162–3
Loch Lomond 180, 185
Locomotion No 1 196
London 12, 67, 110, 113–17, 150, 179, 196, 217, 219, 222, 225, 226–33, 237, 244, 247, 248, 250, 252
London & North Western Railway Company 146
London & South Western Railway 229
London Bridge station 229, 244, 244
London, Brighton & South Coast Railway 228–9
London Necropolis Company 230
London Underground 116, 229, 232–2, 248
Loos, Battle of (1915) 136
Louis XVIII 109–10
Ludd, Ned 218
Luddites 218–19
Ludlow 153
Lukin, Lionel 204
Lusitania 180
M
MacDonald, Flora 192
‘mad cow’ disease 150
Maidstone 250–2
Mallaig 172, 183, 191, 192, 193
Maltby, Edward, Bishop of Durham 208–9
Manchester & Liverpool line 33
Manchester 12, 28, 32, 33–7, 34–5, 45
Manchester Museum of Science and Industry 37
Mappa Mundi 150, 151
Margate 255–9, 256–7
Marples, Ernest 73
Marsden 198–202
Martello towers 260, 262
Mathieu, Albert 262
Matlock Bath 98–9
Matson, John 49
McAlpine, Sir Robert (‘Concrete Bob’) 191
McGonagal, William 96–7
Melton Mowbray 196, 219
Menai Strait 163, 168
Men
ai Strait suspension bridge 146
mercury poisoning 37
Metropolitan line 116, 117
Mevagissey 81–3
Middle Biddolf Esq, R. 159
Middleton, Guy 159
Middleton, Stephen 38
Midland Grand Hotel, London 116
Midland Hotel, Derby 102
Midland Railway Company 113–16, 124
Milton, Robert 153–4
Monster Excursions 45
Moonlight Sonata operation (Coventry bombing) 109
Morecambe Bay 123–4, 125
Morris, Tom 178
Mostyn family 163
Mottray, Henri 262
Mumford, Geoff 105
‘mungo’ 217
munitions workers 136, 137
N
Napoleon Bonaparte 252, 260, 262
Napoleonic Wars 214, 218
Nash, John 222
National Forest 105
National Trust 202
Nelson, Admiral Horatio 248, 260
Nesbit, Edith 262
Network Rail helicopter 38–42
New Bath Hotel, Matlock 98, 98
Newcastle 196
Newhaven 225
Newlove, James 259
Newmarket 234
Nightingale, Florence 99
Nightingale, Peter 99
Nixon, Richard 135
Normans 208, 237
North Midland Line 217
North of England Musical Tournament 205
Norwich 238–41, 253
Nottingham 218–19
O
Oakes, Jonathan 102
Oban 183–5
Olympics 2012 248
Open Championship, golf 178–9
‘Original’, lifeboat 203, 203
Orwell, George 250
Ottoman Empire 214
Overend, Gurney & Company 238–41
Owen, Professor Richard 229
P
Paddington station, London 56, 58, 116
Paignton 75
Paisley 179
Palace Pier, Brighton 225
Par 80
‘parallel roads’, Glen Roy 188
Park, Willie 178
Paxton, Sir Joseph 226
Peachey, William 42
Peak District 92, 97–9
Pease, Edward 209
Penzance 56, 88, 89
Perran Sands 83–4
perry 146–9
Peterloo massacre 34
Pied Piper Operation 110–13, 111
pilchard industry, Cornwall 81–3
Pillars of Hercules, The (Urquart) 214
Pinder, John 132
Piran, St 83, 84
Pitt, William 260
Pontefract 42–3
pork pies, Melton Mowbray 219
Portillo, Charles 10
Portillo, Michael 10–12, 11, 19–22, 20–1, 22–3, 49, 82–3, 99, 114–15, 124, 128, 142, 143, 248