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Stagecoach services in England and Wales 1819 and 1836

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Alan Rosevear, CAMPOP; Dan Bogart, University of California, Irvine; Leigh Shaw-Taylor, University of Cambridge

Version: View help for Version V2

Version Title: View help for Version Title Full service list

Name	File Type	Size	Last Modified
London coaches.cpg	text/plain	5 bytes	11/28/2023 11:52:PM
London coaches.dbf	application/x-dbf	1.9 MB	11/28/2023 11:52:PM
London coaches.prj	text/plain	417 bytes	11/29/2023 12:33:AM
London coaches.sbn	application/x-shapefile	12.1 KB	04/17/2017 11:22:AM
London coaches.sbx	application/x-shapefile	332 bytes	11/28/2023 11:52:PM
London coaches.shp	application/x-shapefile	16 MB	11/28/2023 11:52:PM
London coaches.shp.xml	application/xml	240.3 KB	11/28/2023 11:52:PM
London coaches.shx	application/x-shapefile	10.5 KB	11/29/2023 04:55:AM
data creation table London stage coaches final.docx	application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document	25 KB	11/29/2023 12:35:AM

Project Citation:

Rosevear, Alan, Bogart, Dan, and Shaw-Taylor, Leigh. Stagecoach services in England and Wales 1819 and 1836. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-11-29. https://doi.org/10.3886/E195128V2

Project Description

Summary: An Arc GIS PRO shapefile "London coaches" mapping the routes used by advertised and licensed stagecoaches and Royal Mail coaches radiating from London in England & Wales in 1819 and 1836. The data for 1819 is from the list of stagecoaches leaving London Inns in Cary's New Itinerary of 1819. The data for 1836 is from two sources; the "Directory of Stage Coach Services 1836" compiled by Bates (1969) and from the Table of Licensed Stagecoach Services for London published in Robson's London Directory of 1836. The 1836 list from Robson includes short stage services within London. The mapped service routes includes information on the terminus of the service, intermediate stops, coach names, and for 1836 start times and duration of the journey, number of licensed passengers and licensed distance. The mapping makes use of the turnpike roads shapefile also deposited at openicprs.

Funding Sources: Leverhulme Trust (United Kingdom) (RPG-2013-093); NSF (SES-1260699)

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: stagecoach; road transport; England; London; Georgian; inn

Time Period(s): 1819 – 1836

Collection Date(s): 2019 – 2023

Data Type(s): geographic information system (GIS) data

Collection Notes: historic records of stagecoach services and visual inspection of GIS maps of main roads in England and Wales 1820 and 1838

Methodology

Response Rate: Methodology given in associated Word file. Routes were plotted based on information in published directories and correlation with other contemporary documents.

Data Source: Pigot's London Directory 1819 - on line copy Internet Archive
Directory of Stage Coach Services 1838 complied by Bates A (1969) publ by Alan Sutton, Newton Abbot, UK
Robson's London Directory - Table of Licensed stagecoach services - copy from Guild Hall Library Archive, London

Scales:

statute miles

Unit(s) of Observation: scale aprox 6 inches to the mile

Geographic Unit: roads

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V3 [2023-12-04]

V2 [2023-11-29]

V1 [2023-11-19]

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