Altarnun: The Kings Head, Fivelanes
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Altarnun: The Kings Head, Fivelanes
Image: © Martin Bodman Taken: 31 Jul 2007
Fivelanes is now bypassed by the modern A30 Trunk Road but in the early nineteenth century it was a place of some importance. In 1816 Five Lanes – as it then was – was one of five district centres for Thomas Russell & Co’s flying waggons, plying between Falmouth, Exeter and London, sometimes carrying bullion from the mail vessels or packets shipped from places such as Lisbon, Malta and Jamaica [Source: Dorian Gerhold. Road Transport before the Railways. Russell’s London Flying Waggons. Cambridge University Press, 1993]
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Image Location
Latitude
50.59934
Longitude
-4.508641