Turnpikes in Lancashire.

Good page for anyone wanting information about old roads in general, and in Lancashire in particular.
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More here.
Turnpikes.



This map shows my home county of Lancashire. My home town, Morecambe, (pronounced Morcum) isn't there because it was a Victorian development, but it's just below Hest (Bank) on Morecambe Bay.

Jo

Travel, 1819

Image from this French blog.

I stumbled across this from 1819p

LA DILIGENCE
"A Monopolylogue." I assume that means many voices for one voice, and it's a script for a ventriloquist. I can't quite figure out where it takes place. It seems to be in Paris going to Calais, but in the end they're going to Paris?

But within the farce, there are snippets about travel in 1819. A diligence was a French stage or mail coach, and as you'll see above, large. That one seems to be divided into three separate compartments.

Jo