DescriptionThe Haycock, Wansford in England - geograph.org.uk - 528954.jpg
English: The Haycock, Wansford in England Famous Posting House on the old Great North Road dating from 1632 http://www.thehaycock.co.uk/
The Haycock takes its name from a tale by Richard Braithwaite published in 1638 called 'Barnabae Itinerarium' about the adventures of 'Drunken Barnabee'. Barnabee arrived at Wansford and saw a cottage door inscribed with "Lord have mercy on me" realising that Wansford was in the grip of the plague he fell asleep on a haycock by the River Nene. The tale recounts the following events ....
On a haycock sleeping soundly,
Thriver rose and tooke me roundly;
Downe the currrente, people cryed,
Sleeping, down the streame I hyed,
Where away, quoth they, from Greenland?
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