Low Hill 151-1/2 Leek (Market Place) 152-1/2 Pool End 154-1/4 Rushton Marsh 157-1/2 (Cross River Dane.) Bosley 160 Macclesfield 165-1/2 Titherington 166 Flash 167-3/4 Hope Green 171-3/4 Poynton 172-1/2 Hazel Grove 174-3/4 Stockport 177-1/2 (Cross River Mersey.) Heaton Norris 179 Heaton Chapel 179-3/4 Levenshulme 180-1/2 Grindley Marsh 181-1/2 Longsight 182 Ardwick Green 183-1/4 (Cross Manchester and Ashton-under-Lyne Canal.) Manchester (St. Ann’s Square) 184-3/4 [Illustration: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS] SEPARATE PLATES THE MAIL CHANGE (_By J. Herring_) _Frontispiece_ PAGE THE GLASGOW MAIL, ABOUT 1830 (_After J. Pollard_) 7 THE GLASGOW MAIL LEAVING THE YARD OF THE “BULL AND MOUTH” (_After C. Cooper Henderson_) 17 THE “COURIER,” MANCHESTER, CARLISLE AND GLASGOW COACH (_After C. B. Newhouse_) 27 MAILS LEAVING THE YARD OF THE “SWAN WITH TWO NECKS,” 1834 (_After J. Pollard_) 35 THE “MANCHESTER TELEGRAPH,” 1834 (_After Robert Havell_) 39 ISLINGTON GREEN, 1825 113 THE MANCHESTER MAIL CHANGING HORSES AT THE “OLD WHITE LION,” FINCHLEY, 1835 (_After James Pollard_) 117 QUEEN ELEANOR CROSS (_From a photograph taken before the restoration of 1884_) 181 NORTHAMPTON: MARKET PLACE AND ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH 191 MARKET HARBOROUGH 213 MOUNTSORREL 249 THE CHASE AND THE ROAD (_After H. Atken_) 255 STAGE-COACH TRAVELLING, 1828 (DERBY AND SHEFFIELD) (_After J. Pollard_) 295 CHURCH STREET, ASHBOURNE 313 THE MANCHESTER MAILS PASSING ONE ANOTHER NEAR ASHBOURNE (_After J. Pollard_) 327 MACCLESFIELD, FROM THE ROAD TO STOCKPORT 343 ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT