Kitchin's Post-Chaise Companion

Roads unfold in successive strips in maps from Kitchin's Post-Chaise Companion, Thomas Kitchin's guide for travellers by coa...

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Roads unfold in successive strips in maps from Kitchin's Post-Chaise Companion, Thomas Kitchin's guide for travellers by coach, published in London in 1767 by Robert Sayer, John Bowles and Carington Bowles. Routes from London lead towards Dover, Chichester, Salisbury and the Midlands, while other sheets link provincial towns, Welsh crossings and northern destinations across England, Wales and neighbouring border districts. Each strip follows the sequence of places along the road rather than a county outline, showing travel as it was experienced before the railways. Some sheets carry a different route on the reverse.

Roads unfold in successive strips in maps from Kitchin's Post-Chaise Companion, Thomas Kitchin's guide for travellers by coach, published in London in 1767 by Robert Sayer, John Bowles and Carington Bowles. Routes from London lead towards Dover, Chichester, Salisbury and the Midlands, while other sheets link provincial towns, Welsh crossings and northern destinations across England, Wales and neighbouring border districts. Each strip follows the sequence of places along the road rather than a county outline, showing travel as it was experienced before the railways. Some sheets carry a different route on the reverse.

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