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Following the old road
Wednesday, 1 February 2023 at 20:53
The old turnpike in Denton's pre-bypass days c.1920s
Following the old road
Northampton and Cold Brayfield Turnpike (1827 to 1880), today's A428
The final version of the commentary I have made about this old road is now available on my blog site Iter Britanniarum.
I propose to produce a YouTube video about the turnpike, dwelling a little on the elements of the original 1827 turnpike route which are very likely to be overlooked by travellers today.
I suppose the underlying objective is to show that, more often than not, an old road is shot thought with history, making each and every journey as archaeological as you might want to make it.
The Northampton and Cold Brayfield turnpike road starts in Derngate in central Northampton, follows an unclassified road to the town’s inner ring road, then today’s A428 Bedford Road through Yardley Hastings to end at the junction with the B565 from Newort Pagnell 1/4 mile west of Cold Brayfield. Exceptions to this route are at Little Houghton, Denton and Yardley Hastings, all in Northamptonshire, where the A428 now bypasses the villages but the turnpike road went through them.
© John Dunn.
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