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telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2022-06-03 09:54 pm

Lighthouse

Reading a short book called Packhorse, Waggon and Post: Land Carriage and Communications under the Tudors and Stuarts, by J. Crofts. (orig published 1967, reprint 2007.)

Page 16, talking about how terrible the roads were in the early modern era, says that in some cases carriers fanned our, even a couple of miles apart, tying to find either the road or a passable way along the route. Brig, in Lincolnshire, had a land lighthouse!

It would never occur to me to put a land lighthouse into a book if I hadn’t read it.

Dunston Pillar, raised by the dude who founded the organization that later became the Hellfire Club: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunston_Pillar


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