A guide to stage coaches, mails, diligences, waggons, carts, coasting vessels, barges and boats, which carry passengers and merchandize from London, Westminster, and Southwark, to the different towns in Great Britain; Describing The Number of Miles to each Town, And the Days and Hours when the Carriages set out from the Inns, &c. in London and its Environs. With an Account Of At The several Wharfs, Quays, and Stairs, where Goods and Passengers are usually received, and conveyed in Coasting Vessels, Barges or Boats, to the different Parts of both Kingdoms. To Which is Now Added, An Alphabetical List of the Proprietors of the different Waggons, Also The Rates paid to Carmen for the Carriage of Goods: Together with their Orders and Ordmances, as settled by the Lord Mayor, &c. at a General Quarter Sessions of the Peace held at Guildhall, London. And likewise the rates of hackney coaches, Chairs, and Watermen, With a List of Hackney Coach Fares. The Whole Useful to Gentlemen, And designed as an Assistant to Warehousemen and Shopkeepers, who send Bal's or Parcels into the Country.

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MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]
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Town and country directory.

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[London] : Printed for W. Lowndes, No.77, Fleet Street, MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]

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iv,124p. ; 80.

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ESTC T131671

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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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