Cary's traveller's companion, or, A delineation of the turnpike roads of England and Wales : shewing the immediate rout to every market and boroughtown throughout the kingdom : laid down by the best authorities on a new set of county maps : to which is added, an alphabetical list of all the market towns, with the days on which they are held
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Type of record: Book
Title: Cary's traveller's companion, or, A delineation of the turnpike roads of England and Wales : shewing the immediate rout to every market and boroughtown throughout the kingdom : laid down by the best authorities on a new set of county maps : to which is added, an alphabetical list of all the market towns, with the days on which they are held
Other titles: Traveller's companion
Classmark: YAS 1049
Creator(s): Cary, John (1754-1835)
Publisher: Printed for John Cary
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1791
Language: English
Size and medium: [6] p., [43] pages of plates, 8 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/497109
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003852509705181
Collection group(s): Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society
Description
Although the date on the title-page is Jan. 1791, the maps, except that of Yorkshire which is still dated 1789, all bear the date Sept. 1st 1792. The maps have been brought up to date by the addition of canals, revision of mail-coach and turnpike routes, etc. Cf. Whitaker: The Harold Whitaker Collection... Univ. of Leeds, 1947, p. 57.
Traveller's companion.
Includes lists of market and borough towns at end, with market days and distances from London.
Indexed in: Chubb CCLXXV.
Additional description
Bound with 1 other publication in volume with spine title: 'Cary Paterson's Roads'. Volume contents: 1. Cary, J.: Cary's traveller's companion. -- 2. Paterson, D.: New and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in Great Britain
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