There were two main routes from Stratford for travellers to London during Shakespeare's lifetime. The shorter ran via Shipston on Stour, Long Compton, and Woodstock to Oxford, and from there to High Wycombe, Beaconsfield, Uxbridge and on, through the present-day London suburbs of Acton and Shepherds Bush to Tyburn and so along modern Oxford Street to Holborn and the City. The other route headed from Stratford through Ettington and Pillerton Hersey to Edgehill; continuing from there to Banbury, Buckingham and Aylesbury, joining the alternative route at Uxbridge. A map of 1599 describes the modern Banbury Road as the 'London Way'. Tradition records that Shakespeare favoured the Oxford route, his godson, Sir William Davenant being the son of an Oxford innkeeper. The time taken on these journeys would have varied according to the means of transport (foot, horseback or carriage) and the condition of the roads which would be affected by the weather, becoming muddy and slow in wet weather or hardening into ruts in summer which were tiring for horse and rider. A rider on horseback, in no great hurry, would probably have taken two or three days on the trip, although, at need, the miles could be covered inside a day with a relay of fast horses.