Mr. Palmer. List of towns where mail coaches are used to deliver the mails (November 27, 1786)
General Post-Office, November 27, 1786
Raguin Code: NEWS –8608
MR. PALMER'S PLAN for the more regular, safe, and expeditious Conveyance of His Majesty's Mails, is this Day extended to YORK, and likewise to NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, and EDINBURGH.
A SIX Days Post per Week is now established betwixt this City and the undermentioned Post-Towns, which are accommodated also with a Bye and Cross Post EVERY DAY.
Alnwick | Coleshill | Holywell | Morpeth | Shrewsbury |
Ashbourne | Chester | Halifax | Norwich | Stone |
Asaph St. | Conway | Huddersfield | Newmarket | Stockport |
Bury St. Edmund's | Caxton | Howden | Newark | Sheffield |
Bury, Lancashire | Congleton | Hull | Nottingham | Shields, North |
Boston | Chesterfield | Harrowgate | Northampton | Shields, South |
Burton on Trent | Chorley | Haddington | Nantwich | Sunderland |
Birmingham | Cave, North | Ives St. Huntingdon | Northop | Stourbridge |
Bewdley | Cave, South | Kidderminster | Newcastle under Line | Scarborough |
Bangor | Daventry | Kendal | Newcastle upon Tyne | Thetford |
Bradford, Yorkshire | Darlington | Knutsford | Northwich | Towcester |
Barnesley | Derby | Lynn | Northallerton | Tuxford |
Bawtry | Dudley | Lincoln | Ormskirk | Thorne |
Beverley | Doncaster | Loughborough | Peterborough | Tadcaster |
Belford | Durham | Leicester | Preston | Tiddeswell |
Berwick | Dunbar | Litchfield | Royston | Wisbech |
Bolton | Edinburgh | Liverpool | Rochdale | Wolverhampton |
Blackburne | Ferrybridge | Leek | Retford | Walsall |
Boroughbridge | Grantham | Leeds | Rawcliffe | Warrington |
Bakewell | Gainsborough | Lancaster | Rippon | Wakefield |
Buxton | Gateshead | Marsh | Stilton | Weighton Market |
Chapel le Faith | Garstang | Manchester | Spalding | Wetherby |
Cambridge | Huntingdon | Macclesfield | Stamford | Wigan |
Charteris | Harborough | Middlewich | Stafford | Whitby |
Coventry | Holyhead | Mansfield | Shiffnal | Yarmouth |
Early next Spring the Plan will be farther extended to GLASGOW, ABERDEEN, to FALMOUTH, PLYMOUTH, &c. and the Improvements in the Bye and Cross Posts given to the Remainder of the principal Post Towns.
N. B. The YORK, the NEWCASTLE, and the EDINBURGH Mail Coaches go from the Bull and Mouth Inn in Bull and Mouth Street; to which House the WORCESTER Mail Coach has been lately removed.
CHARLES BONNOR.