The Road Through Harpenden

by Chris Reynolds

  

Old Roson
On the road to Harpenden near Childwick
[J H Buckingham, A Window on Victorian St Albans]

While the main coaching inns were in the town, there were other hostelries along the route that catered for the passing traveller and the following extract shows who was in residence at the time of the 1851 census,

Joseph Day (45, victualler, born Codicote)

Mary Day (44, victualler’s wife, born Hatfield) & six children

Visitors

Thomas Moss (64, carpenter, born Kimpton)

J H Linton (47, gentleman, born London)

Samuel F Stalland (60, gentleman, born St Brides, London)

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