As I was Going to St. Ives

To Cornwall or Cambridgeshire? - Location Unknown

This humorous picture shows the wives as bears, and does not show the traveler or any signposts. The ladies are dressed in fancy clothing and riding in a very bouncy wagon, driven by their husband and pulled by only one poor horse. There are no visual clues that would indicate they are near the seacoast. In fact, the farm wagon holding the wives could indicate that they are inland, in a farming community, such as Cambridgshire.

In Michael Forman's Mother Goose the husband is pulling a similar wagon, but he is driving it up the beach, and the water with the sailing ships indicates that they are by the coast. This could be in Cornwall . The wives in this picture are dressed in native costumes from a number of different countries, but not too many sacks or cats are shown in the picture.

The only other picture showing a clear setting is the Blegvad illustration showing the signpost and seagulls, along with the ships in the harbor. That picture would suggest Cornwall as the locale.