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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

R. R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--Guide-books--Early works to 1800.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

Guidebooks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261,[25],30p.,plate ) map ;

Edition:

The sixth edition revised, and much improved. To which is added, a compleat index, ..

Other Title:

New description of all the counties in England and Wales

Place of Publication:

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

Notes:

Advertisement to the reader signed: R.R.

Vertical chain lines.

Includes 'A table of the fixed fairs'.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T113685.

OCLC:

642287352