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The Norwich Directory

STAGE COACHES, DILIGENCES, WAGGONS and BARGE to and from Norwich.

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The Old NORWICH MACHINE, By Newmarket, in one Day.

From the Maid’s Head in St. Simon’s, Norwich, every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday night, at ten o’clock; and from the Bull Inn, Bishopgate-street, London, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday night, at the same hour, at 15s. each, 14lb. luggage allowed.

LONDON and NORWICH EXPEDITION.

From the same Inns; sets out from Norwich every Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings at ten, and from London every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday at the same time; carries four inside passengers, at 18s. each, outsides 10s. 6d. 14lb. luggage allowed, all above three halfpence per pound.

The above coaches carry game on the following terms, viz. a hare 6d. brace of pheasants 6d. and brace of partridges 3d.

The POST COACH, from the Angel in the Market-place, Norwich, By Diss, Bury, Sudbury, and Chelmsford.

Comes down every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and goes up every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Insides 15s. Outside 10s. 6d.

A MACHINE COACH, in one Day, from the Angel, By way of Needham, Cobdock, Colchester and Chelmsford.

Sets out from Norwich every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday evenings at ten, and from London every Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings, at the same hour. Insides 15s. Outsides 10s. 6d.

The PARTIE CARREE, By Bury and Sudbury, carries four insides only, at 18s. each.

From the Angel, in Norwich, every Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings, and from London every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday mornings precisely at four o’clock, and gets in about 8 in the evening. During the winter season it travels in a Day and Half, setting out from Norwich every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at one o’clock in the afternoon rests at Bury, and proceeds the next morning for London. From London this coach sets out the same days at eight in the morning, rests at Bury, and finishes its journey the next day before dinner.

The DILIGENCE and New POST-COACH.

From the King’s Head in the Market-place, in and out every day (alternately) to the White Horse in Fetter-lane, London, sets out at each precisely at ten o’clock. The Diligence carries three passengers only, the Post-Coach four, at 1l. 1s. each, allowed 14lb. luggage, and three halfpence per lb. for parcels by weight. A guard attends the carriages in and out of London.

The NORWICH MERCURY.

From the Swan in St. Peter’s Mancroft, sets out on Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday nights at six o’clock, to the Plough Inn, Princes-street, Soho, London, by way of Bury and Sudbury, and gets into London in time for the Bath coach; returns from thence every Monday, Wednesday and Friday evening at nine o’clock; carries five insides only, at 1l. 1s. each, allowed 12lb. luggage, all above three halfpence per lb.

LYNN and NORWICH DILIGENCE. In Eight Hours, by way of Swaffham and Dereham.

Sets out from the White Lion in Lynn, both summer and winter, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning at eight o’clock, to the White Swan in St. Peter’s Mancroft, Norwich, and arrives in time for the Yarmouth coach of that day, during the summer season; returns from the Swan every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday morning at the same hour. It carries three inside passengers at 12s. each, and 14lb. luggage allowed; outsides half price. Short passengers at 3d. halfpenny per mile.

The LYNN DILIGENCE.

From the King’s Head in the Market-place, Norwich, to the Crown in Lynn, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning, and returns from Lynn every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings, at eight o’clock. Passengers at 12s. each, and 14lb. luggage allowed; outsides half price.

YARMOUTH MACHINE.

From the Black Horse on Tombland, to the Wrestlers in Yarmouth, sets out twice every day, Saturday excepted, at six o’clock in the morning, and four in the afternoon, during the summer, and at nine o’clock each morning, in the winter season. Passengers at 4s. each.

The IPSWICH and NORWICH NEW COACH, By Way of Thwaite, Eye, Hoxne, Brockdish, Harleston, and Bungay,

Sets out from the Golden Lion Inn, at Ipswich, every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning, at seven o’clock, and from the Bell Inn, Hog-hill, Norwich, every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday morning, at the same hour. Carries four inside passengers at 12s. each, and one outside at 6s. Short distance at 3d. per mile. Inside passengers to be allowed 14lb. luggage, and all extra at 1d. per lb.

LONDON STAGE WAGGONS.

From Messrs. Marsh’s on Tombland, to the Bull in Bishopsgate-street; and Messrs. Jackson, Dewing and Buck’s, from St. Giles’s to the Green Dragon, in Bishopsgate-street, set out on Tuesday and Friday, and come in on Monday and Thursday, every Week.

BURY WAGGON,

From the Star, in the Market-place, Norwich, comes in on Mondays and Thursdays, and sets out on Tuesdays and Fridays in the afternoon.

BARGE.

The barge goes from the Wherry Staith every Monday and Thursday for Yarmouth, and returns on Tuesday and Friday.

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