Hatfield

         Great North Road

Now begins the feature once known to cyclists as the Long Wall, the stonewall which borders the Salisbury properties of Millwards and Hatfield. Withthe occasional lodge gates and woodlands of the park on the right, and therailway sunk in a slight cutting on the left, there was no more delightful  stretch of the Great North Road before the traffic grew and the old roadcould tolerate it no longer. Barnet by-pass a mile to the west later filtered offmuch of the traffic but the old highway was not left in peace for diversionscaused by new roads serving Hatfield New Town have disturbed its course