ABSTRACT
The chapter is concerned with the relationship between the development of industry and transport improvement within East Anglia. To study the relationship between industry and transport, the first essential is a full knowledge of the location and scale of all industrial enterprises, and this is not necessarily easily acquired. Malting was a major East Anglian industry, mainly serving the London market. The chapter investigates the connections between transport and industry in East Anglia, and there are many other industrial activities which would benefit from further investigation in both the records and on the ground. There are many areas in which a combination of fieldwork, documentary research and even the oral record is necessary to achieve a fuller understanding for any particular industry and area of which came first, the transport chicken or the industrial egg. In East Anglia, investigation so far suggests it was normally, but not invariably, the chicken.
