Coach Directory 1821

A List of all the Inns throughout the Metropolis from which the Mail and other Stage Coaches depart.

To Canterbury, Dover and Paris &c

Angel, St Clement’s, Strand Royal Mail
Via Gravesend, Rochester, Chatham, Sittingboume, Ospringe, Faversham, Canterbury
To London Hotel, Dover: depart Daily 7.30pm; Sunday 6.45pm
Arrive 6.45am
Return depart 6.30pm; arrive 5.30am
Light Post Coach daily 6.30am and 5.30pm
Paris (Mail) by way of Dover
Tuesday & Friday l2at night
Bell & Crown,Holborn
To Ship Inn, Dover daily 6.45am; 5.45pm
Arr in 10 hours
Old Bell, Holborn Union Coach
Thro’ Deal, Ramsgate, Margate & Canterbury
To Union Hotel, Dover daily 7.00am; 6.00pm
Arrive 12 hours
Belle Sauvage, Ludgate Hill Light Coaches

Dover, Deal, Margate, Ramsgate, Canterbury, Chatham & Rochester
Daily 7.30am; 6.00pm

Bell, Bell Yard, Gracechurch Street Union Coach
Dover, Chatham, Rochester & Canterbury
Daily 7.00am; 7.00pm

Blossoms Inn, Lawrence Lane, Cheapside Post Coach

Canterbury
Daily 7.00pm; arr 4.00am
, Return 8.00pm; arr 6.00am
Dover daily 6.30pm; arr Union Hotel 6.00am
Return 5.00pm; arr 5.00am

Boar & Castle Inn and Oxford Hotel, 6 Oxford Street, near Tottenham Court Road
Dover, Deal, Margate, Ramsgate, Canterbury, Chatham, Rochester, Sittingbourne, Faversham &
Gravesend. 6.45am

Bull, Bishopsgate Street
Dover Daily 7.00am; 6.30pm

Bull, Leadenhall Street & Old Black Bear, Piccadilly
Dover, Deal, Margate, Ramsgate 8.00am; 6.00pm

Cross Keys, Gracechurch Street


Dover, Deal, Canterbury

To Ship, Dover Daily 8.00am; 7.30pm
Extra Coaches at any hour
Paris, by Dover 8.00am 7.30pm
Cross Keys, Wood Street, Cheapside Light Coach

Dover, Deal, Margate, Ramsgate, Canterbury
Daily 7.00am; 8.00am; 6.30pm
Paris (Diligence) by Dover Daily 8.00am 6.00pm

George, Borough
Deal, Dover, Canterbury, Faversham, Ramsgate, Margate
Daily 7.00am; 7.00pm
George and Blue Boar, Holborn
Dover, thro’ Dartford, Gravesend, Rochester, Chatham, Sittingbourne, Canterbury

Daily 6.30am
To Ship, Dover arr 7.00pm
Return 7.30am; arr7.00pm
George & Gate, Gracechurch Street
Dover, Deal, Margate Daily 7.00am; 6.00pm
Golden Cross, Charing Cross
Canterbury Daily 7.00am; 8.00am 7.00pm
To Rose Inn 10 hours
Dover, Margate, Ramsgate, Deal & Canterbury
Daily 7.00am; 8.00am 7.00pm

To Ship Inn, Dover 12 hours
Extra carriages always ready for families and parties
Paris (Diligencies of the Messageries Royales) by Calais or Dieppe &c
, Daily 7.00am 8.00am 7.00pm
No.4 Gracechurch Street
Dover, Deal, Margate, Ramsgate, Canterbury, Faversham, Chatham & Rochester
Daily 7.00am; 8.00am

No.11 Gracechurch Street
Deal, Dover & Canterbury (Union Coach)
Daily 7.30am; 6.30pm

Saracen’s Head, Snow Hill
Dover, Deal, Margate, Ramsgate, Canterbury, Faversham, Chatham, Rochester & Gravesend
Daily 6.00am 12noon 6.00pm

Shepherd’s Original Office, No. 90, Bishopsgate Within, and No. 35 Camomile Street
Deal, Dover & Paris Daily 7.00am 6.30pm
Margate, Ramsgate & Canterbury Daily 7.00am 6.30pm


Ship, Charing Cross
Canterbury Daily 7.45am 6.45pm
Dover, Deal, Margate, Ramsgate, Canterbury, Faversham, Chatham, Rochester
Daily 8.00am

Spread Eagle, Gracechurch Street

Canterbury Daily 8.00am 6.00pm
To Rose, Canterbury in 8 hours
Dover Daily 8.00am 7.30pm
To London Hotel Dover arr 6.00pm 8.00am
Return 7.00am 5.00pm
Arr 9.00pm 7.00am
Paris, by Dover Daily 8.00am 7.30pm
Swan with Two Necks
Paris (New Light Diligence), by Dover Daily 7 .00am
Rochester, Canterbury, Ramsgate & Dover (Telegraph) Daily 7.30
White Bear, Piccadilly
Canterbury, Chatham, Rochester Daily 7.00am; 8.00am; 6.30pm
White Bear. Piccadilly
Dover (Union Coach) Daily 7.00am; 6.30pm
Dover (Safe Coach) Daily 8.00am
To the Union and York Hotels
Paris Daily 7.00am 8.00am 6.30pm
White Horse, Fetter Lane
Canterbury Daily (nearly all hours)
To the Fountain and King’s Head Inn
Dover & Deal Nearly at all hours,
To King’s Arms and York Hotel, Dover
Paris (Royal Mail) Wed. and Saturday 2.00am

Other mornings 6.00am

(Cary’s New Itinerary, 9”‘ edn 1821)