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map type:- Post Office
1850s-1900s
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Post road maps, General Post Office Circulation Map for
England and Wales, for the General Post Office, London,
1850s-1900s.
The series of maps show how the mails are delivered across
the country by post roads and railways at different periods;
mail coaches and carts, stage coaches and omnibuses, rural
postmen mounted or on foot, or on tricycles. Post towns,
money order sub offices, and the end points of mails are
shown.
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(example map)
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map feature:-
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up is N & table of symbols & settlements & post
roads & railways & shipping routes
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sources:-
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HMCMS Map Collection
British Postal Museum and Archive
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items seen (illustrated items in bold):- |
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British Postal Museum and Archive
(3)
-- post road map -- General Post Office Circulation Map for
England and Wales
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British Postal Museum and Archive
(4)
-- post road map -- General Post Office Circulation Map for
England and Wales
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British Postal Museum and Archive
(5)
-- post road map -- General Post Office Circulation Map for
England and Wales
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British Postal Museum and Archive
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-- post road map -- General Post Office Circulation Map for
England and Wales
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Hampshire Museums : FA2001.173
-- map -- General Post Office Circulation Map for England
and Wales
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