Introduction
THE FROM BY WITH NOTES. LONDON: PRINTED FOR WILKIE AND ROBINSON; J. NUNN; WHITE AND 1811. THE ground which is described in the following sheets; has been for some centuries passed over by the incurious Traveller; and has had the hard fortune of being constantly execrated for its dulness. To retort the charge, and clear it from the calumny, is my present business. To shew that the road itself, or its vicinity, is replete with either antient historic facts, or with matter worthy of present attention, is an affair of no great difficulty. Possibly my readers may subscribe to the opinion, that the tract is not absolutely devoid of entertainment, and that the blame rests on themselves, not the country. WHATSOEVER entertainment they may meet with, let them join with me in thanks to the following contributors. Firstly and chiefly, to the Reverend Mr. COLE of Milton,
near Cambridge;
after him, to the Reverend Doctor Edwards,
of Nuneaton,
near Coventry;
to Mr. Greene,
Surgeon, in Lichfield;
and to the Reverend Archdeacon Coxe,
of Flitton, Bedfordshire.
To these Gentlemen I owe great obligations for their assistance. PUBLIC! smile on what is right: candidly convey correction of what is wrong. THOMAS PENNANT DOWNING, March
1782. [The above page numbers are as they appeared in the printed book on which this digital edition is based,
JOURNEY
CHESTER TO LONDON,
THOMAS PENNANT, ESQ.
COCHRANE; LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN;
VERNOR, HOOD, AND SHARPE; CADELL AND DAVIES; J.
HARDING; J. RICHARDSON; J. BOOTH; J. MAWMAN; AND
J. JOHNSON AND CO.
ADVERTISEMENT.
ITINERARY.
but we have added direct links from the place-names to the relevant text within Vision of Britain.]
Thomas Pennant, The Journey from Chester to London (London: Wilkie and Robinson, 1811)