The Exeter Road

Author: Charles G. Harper

Preface

Word Count: 485 | Released on: 17/11/2017

occasion may be taken to say that perhaps greater care has been exercised than in preceding volumes to collect and put on rec

and the compilers of guide-books at the other; and it is just because this gossip and these local anecdotes are

ave been suppressed; nor for this would it seem necessary to appear apologetic, even although local patriotism is a mil

s than the cleanest, the neatest, and the busiest for its size of all the Sweet Auburns in the land! Has not the writer been promised a bad quarter of an hour by the local press, should he revisit Crayford, after writing of that uncleanly place in

ty, how eminently desirable and delightful when found, he thinks. Not so the dweller in such a spot. He would welcome as a benefactor any one wh

l its predecessors, and like those that are to follow it, is intended for those who journey down the roads either in person or in imagination, and to their judgment it

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“THIS, the fifth volume in a series of works purporting to tell the Story of the Great Roads, requires but few forewords; but occasion may be taken to say that perhaps greater care has been exercised than in preceding volumes to collect and put on record those anecdotes and floating traditions of the country, which, the gossip of yesterday, will be the history of to-morrow. These are precisely the things that are neglected by the County Historians at one end of the scale of writers, and the compilers of guide-books at the other; and it is just because this gossip and these local anecdotes are generally passed by and often lost that those which are gathered now will become more valuable as time goes on.”