I suppose it was the Romans who introduced the first transport system to this country, with government posting stations, where light carriages, post horses and postilions were available for officials travelling on business. The Romans had good roads and roadside inns and a very efficient system, but the majority of Romans left our shores in AD 407 and from then on the system fell into disrepair. After the Romans, people generally did not travel unless they had to; many people grew up, lived and died in a single village or close group of villages, which they never left. Men called to arms may have travelled, as is the nature of things in our military history, but that was the exception rather than the rule.
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