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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.