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List of towns where a daily post has been established (1768)

0001 General-Post-Office, September 6, 1768
Raguin Code: –6804

His Majesty's Postmaster-General having been pleased to establish a Daily Post, Sunday excepted, to and from hence, and the following Post Towns. All Persons within their respective Collections and Deliveries, may avail themselves thereof who may think proper to have their Letters fetched and carried to and from the said Towns.

Abingdon. Canterbury. Dumfreis. Hertford.
Annan. Carlisle. Dunstable. Hereford.
Appleby. Caxton. Durham. High Wycombe.
Ashburton. Chatham. Holkham.
Attleborough. Chelmsford. East-Grinstead. Holt.
Chesterfield. Endfield. Holyhead.
Banbury. Chester. Enstone. Howden.
Barnard's-Castle. Chipping-norton. Epsom. Hull.
Barnet. Chorley in Lancashire. Esher. Huntingdon.
Barnsley. Cirencester. Exeter. Huthersfield.
Bath. Claremont.
Bawtry. Clay. Fairford. Ingatestone.
Beccles. Cobham. Fakenham. Ipswich.
Beaconsfield. Cockermouth. Farnham. Ireland (By Holyhead and Port Patrick)
Birmingham. Colchester. Farringdon.
Biscester. Coltersworth. Ferrybridge. Isleworth.
Bradford in Yorkshire. Coventry. Feversham.
Bridgwater. Croydon. Kelvedon.
Brighthelmstone. (*) Garstang. Kendal.
Bristol. Darking. Gerrard's-Cross. Keswick.
Bromley. (*) Darlington. Gloucester. Kingston.
Brough. Dartford. Godalmin.
Burntwood. Daventry. Grantham. Lancaster.
Burroughbridge. Deal. Gravesend. Leatherhead.
Bury St. Edmonds. Derby. Guildford. Ledbury.
Burnham in Norfolk. Dereham. Leeds.
Donaghadee. Hallifax. Leicester.
Cambridge. Doncaster. Hampton in Gloucesters. Lewis.
Campden. Dover. Haslemere. Liverpool.
Loughborough. Petersfield. Shrewsbury. Walsingham.
Lowestoff. Plymouth. Sittingbourn. Ware.
Lynn. Portsmouth. Southall. Warrington.
Prescot. Southampton. Warwick.
Maidstone. Preston. Stafford. Watford.
Manchester. Stilton. Watton in Norfolk.
Mansfield. Queenborough. Stoke in Norfolk. Wells in Somerset.
Margate. (*) Stone. Wells in Norfolk.
Market Harborough. Ramsgate. (*) Stamford. Wellington in Somerset.
Marlow. Rawcliffe. Staines. Wetherby.
Middlewich. Reading. Stratford on Avon. Whitehaven.
Retford. Stroud, Gloucestershire. Wigan.
Namptwich. Ripley. Wight, Isle of.
Newark. Rochdale. Tadcaster. Winchester.
Newcastle. Rochester. Taunton. Windham in Norfolk.
Newmarket. Rotherham. Tedbury. Windsor.
Newport-Pagnel. Royston. Thame. Wingham in Kent.
Northallerton. Rumford. Thetford. Witham in Essex.
Northampton. Ryegate. Thorne. Wolverhampton.
Nottingham. Tiverton. Worcester.
Northwich. Sandwich. Tunbridge. (*) Worksop.
Norwich. Saxmundham. Tuxford. Workington.
Sevenoake. (*) Wooburn.
Oakingham. St. Albans. Uxbridge. Woodstock.
Oxford. Sheffield.
Shipston upon Stower. Wakefield. Yarmouth in Norfolk.
Penrith. Shifnal. Walsall. York.

(*) = from Midsummer to Michaelmas

A Mail is dispatched from London to Edinburgh, and from Edinburgh to London every Day, Wednesday and Sunday excepted. Also to and from Morpeth, Alnwick, Belford, and Berwick. A Post is likewise established Six Times a Week between Edinburgh and Aberdeen, Glasgow, Greenock, and other intermediate Towns in Scotland.

Letters are sent from hence on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays for Arundel, Brighthelmstone, Chichester, Grayes, Midhurst, Petworth, Steyning, Shoreham and Wisbich, and return hither on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

ANTH. TODD, Secretary.