A new description of all the counties in England and Wales: containing I. In what diocese; the circumference in miles; Number of Acres and Houses; the Air, Soil, Rivers, Commodities, chief Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, and the Hundreds in each county. II. Market-Towns, Market days, and their Distances from the City of London. III. Members of Parliament. IV. Fairs, fixed and moveable. V. A brief and succinct History of all the Cities in England and Wales. VI. Coaches, Carriers, and Waterbound, to all Parts of the Kingdom; what Days they go out of Town, and from whence. Vii. Roads from London to the chief Towns, and Cross Roads; each County distinct by itself, alphabetically. Viii. The Distances of the principal Towns from the Shire-Towns in every County. IX. The rates of coachmen, Carmen, and Watermen in and about the cities of London and Westminster, &c. &c. The whole very plain, easy, entertaining, and more exact than in any other Work.

People / Organizations

• R. R. (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for J. Hodges, at the Looking-Glass, over-against the Magnus's Church, London-Bridge, 1752.

Publication year

1752-1752

ESTC No.

T113685

Grub Street ID

165587

Description

261,[25],30p.,plate : map ; 12⁰

Note

Advertisement to the reader signed: R.R.

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Includes 'A table of the fixed fairs'.