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The Pilgrim Road, and Who Walks It Now
The pilgrim road runs from London Bridge to Canterbury in fifty-six miles, then on to Dover in another fifteen. It is the best-maintained road in the southern counties for the first two thirds, ordinary for the rest. It was built to bring people to a shrine, it is kept up because it brings the packet trade to the sea, and the difference between those two purposes is visible in its surface. The stretches nearest Canterbury are older, wider, better drained. The stretches beyond were improved within living memory by people who wanted carts to move faster.
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