NOTES from CARY'S NEW ITINERARY

Cary, John: 1815 (6th edn): Cary's New Itinerary: (London)

Title Page

CARY'S / NEW ITINERARY: / OR AN / ACCURATE DELINEATION / OF THE / GREAT ROADS, / Both DIRECT and CROSS throughout / ENGLAND AND WALES; / With many of the Principal Roads in / SCOTLAND. / From an ACTUAL ADMEASUREMENT by / JOHN CARY: / Made by COMMAND of his / Majesty's Postmaster General, / FOR / OFFICIAL PURPOSES. / Under Direction and Inspection of / THOMAS HASKER Esqr. / Surveyor and Superintendant of the Mail Coaches. / This WORK shows the IMMEDIATE ROUTE from the / METROPOLIS to all parts of ENGLAND and WALES: / AND / From Town to Town in every direction, distinguishing also, / THE / CITIES, MARKET, BOROUGH AND CORPORATE TOWNS: / And those at which the ASSIZES are held, and gives the time of / the MAILS ARRIVAL and DEPARTURE from each. Describes the / Line of the Navigable Canals and the Course of the Rivers passed over, / The Number of Houses and Inhabitants contained in each Town. / And those INNS which supply Post Horses and Carriages. / ALSO / The INNS throughout the METROPOLIS, from which the MAIL / And STAGE COACHES go, their time of departure, & the ROUTE they severally take. / The NOBLEMEN and GENTLEMEN'S SEATS situate near the Roads, / A List of the PACKET BOATS, and their Time of sailing: COPIOUS INDEXES. / Maps of the I. of Wight Environs of London Bath Brighton Margate & Cheltenham & a Large / Map of ENGLAND and WALES, peculiarly adapted to the Work. / SIXTH EDITION, with IMPROVEMENTS. / LONDON: Printed for J. CARY No. 181 Strand 1815.

Dedication page

DEDICATED / By Permission, / To The Right Honorable the / EARL of / Chesterfield, / THE / Liberal Patron of this Work, / BY / His Lordship's / much obliged, and / very obedient Servant, / John Cary, 1815.

Description of Direct Roads

DIRECT ROADS.

That the Distances may correspond as nearly as possible with the Milestones on the Roads, they are reckoned from the customary Standards.

At the conclusion of each Route, where the length is such as to render it useful, a Return Route is added, exhibiting at one view the immediate distance from stage to stage, without the trouble of subtracting; to which method of calculation the Traveller would otherwise find it necessary to resort. The reckoning on this Back Route is also continued to the General Post Office, for the purpose of preserving the plan in the First Edition to those who may consider it essential.

Description of Cross Roads, Seats, Maps, etc

CROSS ROADS

To this part of the Work great Additions have also been made, and numerous Roads introduced, which are not described in any other publication of this nature. - The INDEX to these Roads is likewise so arranged as to afford an easy and direct reference to each Route.

SEATS

The Proprietor has to acknowledge infinite obligations to his Friends for numerous Additions and Corrections, which they have kindly communicated, and which has enabled him to extend his List of Seats, and render it as perfect as the nature of the Work will admit; but as this part of the Publication is necessarily liable to some inaccuracies, even during its printing, he hopes that, where any errors may be perceived, they will not be imputed to negligence, as the utmost care has been taken to render the List correct; and he earnestly entreats those who may do him the honour of making this Book their travelling Companion, that they will have the goodness to transmit any additional information for the improvement of the work; and their communications shall be carefully attended to and gratefully ackowledged. A full and complete Index to the Seats is given at the end of the Work, with particular reference to the page where they are noticed.

MAP.

The Map of England and Wales, which accompanies, has been executed with the utmost care and attention, and exhibits the whole of the Roads contained in this Work, particularly describing those on which the Mail Coaches travel.

Figures of Reference are added to the Cross Roads, corresponding with the number of the Route wherein they are described; thus affording an additional Index to those Roads, and giving facility to the Traveller in tracing his Route in every direction, and to any extent.

Surveyors employed in measuring the Roads described in this Work.

GEORGE GRETTON, Liverpool.

RICHARD WOLLAMS, Shirleywich.

JOHN BURTON, Lancaster.

JOSEPH SINGER, Littletown, Devon.

L. HEBERT, Strand.

The Measurements, which are taken in miles and furlongs, are arranged in columns; the first and second giving the distance from one City, Town, or Village, to the next; the third and fourth, the number of miles from the commencement of the Road.

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Thus, the distance is given for Shooter's Hill in the third and fourth columns, eight miles one furlomg; and in the continuation of the Road to Dartford you find the measurement to that place from London to be fourteen miles six furlongs.

General Directions for tracings the Roads.

Suppose you want the Road from London to Doncaster - look for the name of that place in the Index to the Direct Roads from London, and the figure opposite to it (351) refers to the page in which is that part of the Road containing Doncaster, though the description of the Road in which it is situated (being that from London to Carlisle and Glasgow) begins in page 343, and ends in page 360.

In describing the lesser Roads branching from the greater, the last remarkable place on the great Road, or the spot where the lesser turns off, is first given, with a reference to the page in which you will find the Road so far as to that place; and afterwards the Branch is continued: as, for instance, to find the Road from London to Weymouth, the Index refers you for Weymouth to page 84, where you find it in the following form, viz.

By which it appears you are refered to page 56 for this Road as far as Dorchester (the last remarkable place on the great Road); and the remainder of the Road to Weymouth is given after the above form in page 84, as directed by the Index. These References are made use of in order to prevent the numberless repetitions, which would otherwise unavoidably occur, and thereby swell the Book to an inconvenient size.

The Index to the Cross Roads, it is conceived, is so copious and explicit, as to require no further explanation that what is given at the beginning of it.

Having before observed how much he should feel obliged to those Travellers who would do him the favour to communicate notice of any Error which they may occasionally detect in this Work, it may appear intrusive again to solicit their attention; but the Proprietor hopes his anxiety will be excused, in consideration of the advantage which the Public must feel, in having a Work of this nature correct in all its parts, and that to render it so exceeds the possibility of individual exertion - In the performance of this task, he has used his utmost endeavours to make his Book complete, and flatters himself, that in the Delineation of the Roads few errors will be found; but it scarcely needs remark, that in giving the numerous Seats which this Work describes, some mistakes must occur, to rectify which, he takes the liberty of observing, that nothing can so effectually contribute, as the information of the intelligent Traveller, whose assistance he most particularly requests; as also that of Gentlemen of local information, to whom he would consider himself highly indebted for their communications, to which the utmost attention will be paid.

I would add to the obligation, if Gentlemen, when they communicate information, would have the goodness to sign their Name and Address, as it frequently happens that further explanation is necessary, and it would remove any doubt as to authenticity.

Contents List

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Index to the Direct Roads from London.

Calculation of Posting.

Rates of the Postage of Letters.

Circuits of the Judges.

Lists of upwards of Nine Thousand Places branching from the Main

Roads. - See the Remark on the Fly Leaf, facing the Title.

Index to the Rivers and Navigable Canals.

Alphabetical Arrangement of the principal Places that occur in

the Cross Roads.

List of the Cross Roads.

Index of Places which occur in the Routes of the different

Coaches going from the Metropolis.

List of all the Inns throughout the Metropolis from which the

Mail and other Stage Coaches depart.

List of the Stage Coaches going from London to all the

circumjacent Villages, &c.

Separate maps of the Isle of Wight, and of the Environs of

London, Bath, Brighton, Margate, and Cheltenham.

Abbreviations, &c. used in the Work - 1

Direct Roads measured from London Bridge - 3

Ditto measured from the Stones End, Borough - 27

Ditto measured from Westminster Bridge - 35

Ditto measured from Hyde Park Corner - 51

Ditto measured from Tyburn Turnpike - 191

Ditto measured from Holborn Bars and St Giles's Pound - 277

Ditto measured from Hicks's Hall - 279

Ditto measured from Shoreditch Church - 443

Ditto measured from Whitechapel Church - 535

Addenda to the Direct Roads - 561, 873

Cross Roads - 563

Addenda to the Cross Roads - 867

List of the Packet Boats - 875

Index to the Country Seats - 876

List of Publications by J. Cary. - See the next Page and the End of the Work.

CROSS ROADS.

The Course of the Rivers and navigable Canals, the Population and Number of Houses in the Market Towns, with the Arrival and Departure of the Mail, &c. having been already given in the DIRECT ROADS, it is judged unnecessary to repeat them here. Those Places which supply Post Horses are noticed at the End of each Route, and the Names of the Inns will be seen by referring to the same Places on the Direct Roads from London.

INDEX to the COUNTRY SEATS.

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