The Stranger in Shrewsbury: or, an historical and descriptive view of Shrewsbury and its environsHowell, Thomas J.
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The Stranger in Shrewsbury: or, an historical and descriptive view of Shrewsbury and its environs
Howell, Thomas J.
Shrewsbury (England) -- Description and travel
Besides these, there are numerous others, which cannot here be detailed,
but in all of them of respectable name, the stranger will experience a
civility and attention which in houses of this description are not in all
places to be met with.
Public Offices.
THE POST OFFICE is kept in Dogpole. It opens at seven in the morning and
closes at nine at night, and is shut during divine service on Sundays.
To London the mail goes out daily at eleven o’clock (except Saturday.) To
Holyhead and Ireland every evening at three o’clock. To Ludlow,
Hereford, and South Wales every morning at eleven. To Chester, through
Ellesmere and Wrexham every evening at three o’clock. To Pool, and all
Merionethshire, (except Bala and Corwen) Aberystwith, every evening about
half past three o’clock, and to Whitchurch, Wem, Hawkstone, Prees, and
Malpas, every evening by horse post, soon after the arrival of the London
mail. THE STAMP OFFICE is kept in the Corn Market, as is also the SALOP
FIRE OFFICE. The COLLECTOR’S OFFICE for the receipt of the excise
duties, is held in Barker Street. The CLERK OF THE PEACE’S OFFICE is at
the Town Hall.
Bankers.
Messrs. Beck, Dodson, Eatons and Beck, draw on Masterman and Co.
Messrs. Burton, Lloyd, Lloyd, and Salt, draw on Stephenson, Remmington,
and Co.
Messrs. Rocke, Eyton, Campbell, and Bayley, draw on Robarts, Curtis, and
Co.
The banks are open every day from ten o’clock till four.
Newspapers.
Two weekly Newspapers are published here.
_Wednesday_,—The Salopian Journal, at the Office in the Corn Market.
_Friday_,—The Shrewsbury Chronicle, at the Office on St. John’s Hill.
Stage Coaches.
The number of coaches precludes our specifying each particularly, nor
indeed would it be of much avail for any length of time, as they change
so frequently. The following directions, however, give every necessary
information to the stranger in the choice of his conveyance to any part
of the kingdom.
_From the LION COACH OFFICE_.
_Mail Coaches_ to London, Holyhead, Hereford, Chester, Newtown, and all
the intermediate places. _Stage Coaches_ to London, Holyhead,
Manchester, Liverpool, Hereford, Bristol, Bath, Birmingham, Cheltenham,
Aberystwith, and the towns and villages on the road, daily.
_The TALBOT INN_.
_Stage Coaches_ run from this house to the places named before.
_The BRITANNIA INN_.
_Stage Coaches_ to London, Birmingham, and Aberystwith.
Stage Waggons.
_Waggons_ to London, Wolverhampton, Machynlleth, Dolgelley, and
Montgomeryshire, from _Crowley and Co._ Mardol.
_Waggons_ to Chester; Manchester, Ludlow, and Leominster, from _Maxon’s
Warehouse_, Mardol.
_Waggons_ to Aberystwith, Llangollen, Bala, Wem Wharf, (from whence goods
are conveyed by water to Liverpool, &c.) Holyhead, &c. from _Newton’s
General Waggon and Barge Warehouse_, Mardol Quay.
Water Conveyance.
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