SHOW MENUMr. Palmer. Expansion of mail coach routes (July 22, 1785)
General Post-Office, July 22, 1785
Raguin Code: NEWS –8507
MR. PALMER's Plan for conveying His Majesty's Mails every Day in the Week (Sundays excepted) will, on Monday the 25th Instant, be extended to Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, and Leeds, including Bradford, Halifax, and Rochdale.
All Letters for those Towns, and for the intermediate Places between them and London, viz.
| Barnet, | Hitchin, | Luton, | Newport Pagnel, |
| Hatfield, | Biggleswade, | Bedford, | Northampton, |
| Welwyn, | St. Alban's, | Dunstable, | Harborough, |
| Stevenage, | Ampthill, | Wooburn, | Leicester, |
| Loughborough, | Towcester, | Holmeschaple, | Prescot, |
| Derby, | Daventry, | Newcastle under Line, | Mansfield, |
| Ashborne, | Lutterworth, | Congleton, | Chesterfield, |
| Leek, | Rugby, | Knutsford, | Sheffield, |
| Macclesfield, | Coventry, | Warrington, | Barnsley, |
| Stockport, | Coleshill, | Wigan, | Huddersfield, and |
| Rochdale, | Litchfield, | Preston, | Wakefield. |
| Fenny Stratford, | Stone, | Lancaster, | |
| Stony Stratford, | Middlewich, | Kendal, |
And the following Towns only Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.
Wellingborough, Kettering, Oakham, and Melton Mowbray,
must be put into the Receiving Houses before FIVE, and into the General Post-Office before SEVEN o'Clock in the Evening; likewise for Bristol, Bath, Cambridge, Newmarket, Ely, and the intermediate Places on the Road to each; and for all Parts of the Counties of Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk.
ANTHONY TODD, Sec.
