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Penny Post. Extension of the Penny Post

General Post Office, July 7, 1794
Raguin Code: NEWS –9410

NOTICE is hereby given, that the villages of Richmond, Petersham, and Ham, which were heretofore not within the limits of the Penny-Post, are now included in the delivery of that office. Likewise, that rides for the conveyance of letters by the Penny-post, are now established to and from the Chief Penny-post Office, in Abchurch-lane, to and from Mitcham and Richmond, in Surry; the number of deliveries of letters given daily to the several places, within the limits of which are, as under:

Newington Butts, Kensington, Vauxhall, South Lambeth, Walworth, Camberwell, Stockwell, Clapham, Tooting, Streatham, Mitcham, Battersea, Wandsworth, Putney, Roehampton, Barnes, Mortlake, East Sheen, and Richmond, each three deliveries. Dulwich, Morden, Merton, Wimbleton, Petersham, and Ham, each two deliveries.

And from all the several places above-mentioned, there are likewise two posts to town every day, Sundays excepted.

ANTHONY TODD, Sec.