CARYS NEW ITINERARY,
FROM
SURVEYS
MADE BY COMMAND OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
The Postmasters General,
ABBREVIATIONS, &c. USED IN THIS WORK. T. G. Turnpike Gate.
G. P. O. General Post Office.
P. O. Post Office.
M. H. Market House. M. Miles.—F. Furlongs. r. and l. Right and Left of the Road.
Ma. Mail; ar. arrives; Mo. Morning; dep. departs; Aft. Afternoon or Evening.
R. River.
Cities and Market Towns are printed in Capital Letters :—Cities are besides distinguished by a c prefixed, Borough Towns by a b, and Towns and Places where Post Offices or Receiving Houses are established, by p.
H. and I. for Houses and Inhabitants: the Figures added thereto express the Number of each which the Place contains, agreeably to the Population Act of 1811.
The x affixed to the Names of Places denotes that in or near them there is some remarkable Object, which is noticed in the Observations accompanying the Route.
The Word in Italic immediately following the Place to which the Measurement is directed, implies the Point opposite to which it is given.
Roads, described as diverging from the main Route are to be considered as Turnpike Roads leading to the Places to which they are directed, unless otherwise expressed.
N.B. The Inns at the different Places on each Road which supply Post Horses and Carriages are selected, and given at the End of every Route; but the Arrangement of them is not intended to convey any Preference.
On the Map which accompanies this Work, are also distinguished those Roads on which the Mail Coaches travel; and the the Cross Roads Figures are added, denoting the Route wherein they occur.
