Who was the first person to arrive in England by a form of transport other than a boat?

Gnomon

Up to about 5000 BC, England was connected to France, so the first Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) hunter-gatherers would have walked across. If you mean in (relatively) modern times, the first people to arrive on the island of Great Britain by means other than boat were probably Jean-Pierre-Francois Blanchard and John Jeffries who flew from France in a balloon some time in the 1780s or 1790s. Feb 02 04, 7:49 AM

Stew54

I thought of Blanchard too, Gnomon. I know he was the first to fly the Channel in a balloon but I think he went from England, at least on that occasion. As he was something of a star of early aviation though, he might well have been the first to succeed the other way too. There is a tragic story about the first people to try the trip from France to England (more difficult because of the prevailing wind) - they crashed and were killed at Calais. I've visited the memorial but sad to say can't recall their name. [Feb 02 04 8:51 AM] Stew54 writes: Google remembers the celebrated de Rozier's name, even if I did not. Apparently it was Boulogne, not Calais, according to this site (which stands every chance of being more reliable than my memory of 20-some years ago). http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/AVrozier.htm Feb 02 04, 8:23 AM

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