A bit more "Coaching" with Coffee Houses, Licenses and Turnpikes thrown in

Here are a few more items associated with stagecoaches starting with a letter from 1820 talking about getting a seat in the Mail and having correspondence directed to Batson's Coffee House, which was opposite the Royal Exchange in Cornhill.

 

Private coaches had to be licenced as shown by the licence below for a Carriage with less than four wheels dated April 1924.

Travelling by road was not free, one had to pay for Turnpike roads.  Here is a ticket for the Highgate Archway turnpike in London (though outside London when this was in use).  It is not clear what the hieroglyphics on the ticket mean, it could relate to the date or to the class of ticket (or both).