The Arts In Berwick -- Ballads and Poems
The Road from London to Berwick

John Taylor (1580-1653), a Thames water-man and poet, was far too poor to have afforded even a modest road map when he walked from London to Edinburgh. His Penniless Pilgrimage (1618) includes a brief impression of Berwick.

A century later Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe, took the same route, in more comfort. His comment on Berwick was "As for the town itself, it is old, decay'd, and neither populous nor rich".

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