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Mr. Palmer. Expansion of mail coach routes (August 29, 1785)

General Post-Office, August 29, 1785
Raguin Code: NEWS –8511

MR. PALMER having engaged to accomplish his Plan for the Conveyance of His Majesty's Mails to all Parts of the Kingdom as soon as possible, the Letters for every Part of Great Britain and Ireland, must, in future, be put into the Receiving Houses before FIVE o'Clock in the Evening, and into this Office before SEVEN, in order to prevent the Inconveniencies which have arisen to the Public from Two Deliveries in London on the same Day, and the sending out the Mails at different Hours on the same Evening.

From that Time likewise the Letters are intended to be sent out regularly from hence between the Hours of Nine and Ten in the Morning, so as to reach the most distant Parts of the Town by Twelve at Noon.

Notice will be given in a few Days when the Mail Conveyance upon Mr. Palmer's Plan will be established to all Parts of Hampshire, Dorsetshire, Somersetshire, Devonshire, and Cornwall, as likewise to Shrewsbury, and to Dover.

It is necessary that all Newspapers should be put into this Office before Six o'Clock, otherwise they cannot be certain of an immediate Conveyance.

ANTHONY TODD, Sec.

The following are the Mail Coaches already established.

To Bath and Bristol from the Swan with Two Necks, Lad-lane, and the Gloucester Coffee-house, Piccadilly.

To Norwich and Yarmouth, through Newmarket and Thetford, from the White Horse, Fetter-lane.

To Norwich, through Colchester and Ipswich, from the same Place.

To Nottingham and Leeds, from the Bull and Mouth, in Bull and Mouth-street.

To Manchester, through Derby.

To Liverpool through Coventry and Litchfield, from the Swan with Two Necks, Lad-lane.

To Portsmouth, from the Ange~ behind St. Clement's Church. And

To Poole, from the Bell and Crown, Holborn; the Swan with Two Necks, Lad-lane; and the Gloucester Coffee-house, Piccadilly.

To Gloucester, from the Bolt and Tun, Fleet-street. And

To Birmingham, from the Swan with Two Necks, Lad-lane.

As the Plan is extended on to New Roads, they will be Advertised for One Week, as under:

This Day,

To WORCESTER and LUDLOW, through Hounslow, Colebrook, Maidenhead, Henly, Nettlebed, Oxford, Woodstock, Enston, Chipping-norton, Morton in the Marsh, Evesham, Pershore, Worcester, Tenbury, and Ludlow.

To DEVIZES and BRADFORD, through Hounslow, Staines, Bagshot, Hertfordbridge, Basingstoke, Overton, Whitchurch, Andover, Devizes, Milksham, Trowbridge, and Bradford.

And with the Bye and Cross Post, to Bath and Bristol.

The Mail Coach to Worcester and Ludlow, from the George and Blue Boar, Holborn, and the Gloucester Coffeehouse, Piccadilly. And

To Devizes and Bradford, from the Swan with Two Necks, Lad-lane, and the Gloucester Coffee-house, Piccadilly.