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The Postal Service in 18th Century Britain: Post Roads and Post-Boys

September 12, 2009 by Vic

Gentle reader: This is the second of a series of three posts about the postal service in 18th century Britain. The first, Letters and the Penny-Post, can be read at this link. These posts are written in conjunction with Austenprose’s discussion of Lady Susan, an epistolary novel written in the form of letters, and thus are the inspiration for these posts.

The Post Office, Edward Villiers Rippingille, 1820

The Post Office, Edward Villiers Rippingille, 1820

As early as the 16th century horses were used to carry the royal mail. Sir Brian Tuke, appointed by Henry VIII, oversaw a system of riders on routes from London to Edinburgh, Scotland, Holyhead, Falmouth, Dover, and Dublin. Each stage, or post, was about 20 miles in length. After this distance, tired horses were exchanged for fresh replacements. From 1574, each ‘Post Master’ had to have at least three horses available for use. At the sound of the approaching Post-Boy’s horn, his own Post-Boy was made ready to start the next stage of the journey. Post Boys & Mail Coaches, The British Postal Museum archive

A public postal service was introduced in 1635. Riders on horseback carried the mail, but due to the poor condition of the roads the Royal Mail system was slow and hard on the men and the horses they rode. The riders, or post-boys, wore scarlet livery, and barely traveled more than three miles per hour in those early years. They could manage a faster four miles per hour for an express delivery. Dirt roads were in notoriously poor condition and the journey was challenging for even fresh horses. Only six post roads led from London. Letters were carried from post to post by post-boys and delivered to the local postmaster (or postmistres), who removed the letters for the area and had them picked up or delivered. The post-boy would then continue to the next post, carrying the rest of the letters. The Mail Coach Service

Post-Boy En Route to London, 1800

Post-Boy En Route to London, 1800

Before 1765, sending a letter a short distance outside London cost 3d. and sending a letter halfway across the country cost one shilling, or a week’s wages for most people. To cut costs, business concerns preferred to ship their goods down a river or up a canal, rather than chance a slow and dangerous journey by road, for highwaymen and robbers lay in wait, and post-boys were easy prey. Horace Wallpole wrote about a trip from Tonbridge to Penhurst: “The roads grew bad, beyond all badness, the night dark, beyond all darkness, the guide frightened beyond all frightfulness.” In Sussex the roads were generally so impassable in winter that the judges on circuit refused to hold the assizes at Lewes, the county town. Roads, Tolls, and Highwaymen

Post-Boys and their ponies, I Henderson, 1834. Although this image depicts a scene later than the era described in this post, and the ponies are harnessed to pull carriages, not deliver the mail, I chose the image because it is reminded me of a description of post-boys setting out with several ponies. This image is from the British Postal Museum Archive.

Post-Boys and their ponies, I Henderson, 1834. Although this image depicts a scene later than the era described in this post, and the ponies are harnessed to pull carriages, not deliver the mail, I chose the image because it is reminded me of a description of post-boys setting out with several ponies. This image is from the British Postal Museum Archive.

The following impressions by Arthur Young, a traveler in the 18th century are reminders of the economic consequences of poor roads. Poor linkages meant that postal carriers could not travel around the country easily:

To Luton; the cross-road execrable.
To Dunstable; a cross-road, very indifferent.
To Bedford; turnpike: a vile, narrow, cut-up lane.
To Kimbolton; very shabby.
To Thrapstone; a cross-road, but so so, much cut up.
To Grimsthorpe; cross-road; very bad; at one part of it over a common, with roads pointing nine ways at once, and no direction-post.
To Colsterworth; most execrably vile; a narrow causeway, cut into ruts, that threaten to swallow us up.
To Wakefield; indifferent; through the town of Wakefield so bad that it ought to be indicted. Most of the Yorkshire roads are favourably spoken of, but there are some exceptions that
To Medley; a cross-road, being a line of vile deep ruts cut into the clay.
To Temple Newsham; the road is a disgrace to the whole country.
To Castle Howard; infamous. I was near being swallowed up in a slough.
To Morpeth; a pavement a mile or two out of Newcastle: all the rest vile.
To Carlisle; cut up by innumerable little paltry one-horse carts.

“From Newton to Stokesley in Cleveland,” says Young, “is execrably bad. You are obliged to cross the moors they call Black Hambledon, over which the road runs in narrow hollows, that admit a south-country chaise with such difficulty that I reckon this part of the journey made at the hazard of my neck. The going down into Cleveland is beyond all description terrible, for you go through such steep, rough, narrow, rocky precipices, that I would sincerely advise any friend to go a hundred miles to escape it. The name of this pass is very judicious; Scarthneck, that is, Scare nick, or frighten the devil.

From Richmond to Darlington; part of the great north road; execrably broke into holes like an old pavement; sufficient to dislocate one’s bones. Her Majesty’s mails: a history of the post-office, and an industrial account …, 1865, p 126-127.

Post-Boys and Horses, 1794, George Morland

Post-Boys and Horses, 1794, George Morland

Many areas of the country didn’t have easy access to the postal system because few of the mail routes came near them. In the early 18th century, Ralph Allen, an entrepeneur who lived in Bath, added a system of crossroads, which connected two post roads, thus covering more of the country. By-posts ran between a post road and a town some distance from it. A way-letter went between two towns on the same post road. Instructions were put on the bottom left corner of letters, hence early covers often arrived with ‘Cross post’ or ‘X-post’ written on them. (History of the Postal Service .)

Allen – who later became the model for Squire Allworthy in Fielding’s Tom Jones – immediately began to stamp out corrupt practices. He had postmasters send him quarterly returns and swear an oath that their figures were accurate. All by- and cross-letters were to be stamped, and tallies kept of all the unstamped mail that came into the postmasters’ hands. As a result of these measures, income from the mail service increased dramatically.

Apart from stamping out bad practice, Allen expanded the routes used by the postal service. During his tenure, he established posts from London to Bristol, Bath, Cambridge, Norwich and Yarmouth, and also increased the number of deliveries that were made. By the time Allen died in 1764, by- and cross-letters were a profitable source of revenue and the department was soon incorporated within the Inland section of the Post Office.- Potted History by Ben Locker

By the middle of the 18th century, road improvements changed to the point where a contributor to the Gentleman’s Magazine wrote in 1754: “Were the same persons, who made a full tour of England thirty years ago, to make a fresh one now, they would find themselves in a land of enchantment England is no more like to what England was than it resembles Borneo or Madagascar.” (Road, Tolls, and Highwaymen.) Road improvements included toll roads, or private roads which the public paid to use but which were maintained and kept in decent condition. The effects of these turnpikes in 18th-century England contributed to lower freight charges of goods and travel times, and better economic conditions. – POSTAL CENSORSHIP IN ENGLAND 1635-1844 BY SUSAN E. WHYMAN

Though notoriously inefficient, post-boys continued to deliver the mail for over 150 years. They took two days to deliver mail from Bath to London, or 4-5 miles per hour, while the stagecoach took only seventeen hours. They also reputedly took forty-eight hours to carry a letter from Bath to London – (Great Britain). Post-boys were vulnerable to adverse weather conditions and highwaymen. “Attacks from robbers were so common in the late 18th century that the Post Office advised customers sending banknotes ‘to cut all such Notes and Draughts in Half in the following Form, to send them at two different Times, and to wait for the return of the Post, till the receipt of one Half is acknowledged before the other is sent’.”

In addition to losing much of their profits to robbers, post-boys had a poor reputation, much of it deserved. Although postage could be prepaid, a major reason that the recipient paid for the delivery of a letter was to ensure that it would be delivered in the first place. Post-boys often failed to place by-letters and cross-letters with the official mail, and they managed to lose or miscarry a great deal of their baggage.

Mile post on the way to London

Mile post on the way to London

Inquiring reader, I decided to end this post with a series of vignettes culled from different sources. While they add to our knowledge of Post Roads, Post-Boys, and Post-Offices, I could find no smooth way to fit the information into the narrative. I end with a poem by Cowper, Jane Austen’s favorite poet, whose poem about a Post Man seems a most fitting way to end this topic.

The boy who carried the mail dismounted at Hammersmith, about three miles from Hyde Park Corner, and called for beer, when some thieves took the opportunity to cut the mail-bags from off the horse’s crupper, and got away undiscovered.” Conditions of the Road P. 125

It must be added, however, that there was little help for raw, unarmed post-boys, when carriages were stopped in broad daylight in Hyde Park, and even in Piccadilly, and pistols pointed at the breasts of the nobility and gentry living close at hand! (Conditions of the roads: pp 126-127)

Rumors of their drunkenness and irresponsibility were rife. At one point it was claimed that “the gentry doe give much money to the riders, whereby they he very subject to get in liquor, which stopes the mails”. Paying the messenger after a letter was delivered was probably the most effective way to ensure it didn’t get lost.- Potted History by Ben Locker

Fell Pony
The late 18th century saw the Fell as the pack animal of choice, carrying loads of lead ore to coastal smelters. Fells were often driven in pack trains of ten animals each, carrying a ton of lead ore between them. The loads were just heavy enough so that two men could lift up the pack saddles while a boy led the Fell out from under. The active, long strides of the Fell Pony meant the pack train could travel over 30 miles a day, over 230 miles a week, for seven days a week, year-after-year, with no breaks for the animals.
The Fell became the mount of choice for the Post Office to carry the mail in Cumberland and Westmorland. In the northern towns, the Fell was also a driving animal, crucial to tradesmen. In the 1800’s, the breed gained renown as a premier trotter, frequently winning against all breeds. – Mustahevonen Farm

Posting in England, about the time of the Tudors, and for some long time afterwards, was carried on by riders on horseback. These persons, who were generally young lads, were termed Post-boys. Their only livery was a scarlet jacket and waistcoat, given to them on the birthday of the reigning sovereign. They might often be seen loitering on the way, and rarely travelled quicker than three miles an hour; or, if sent on express business, managed to accomplish four miles in that time. Campbell writes:
Near Inverary we regained a spot of comparative civilization, and came up with the postboy, whose horse was quietly grazing at some distance, whilst redjacket himself was immersed in play with other lads.
“You rascal! I said to him, “are you the post-boy, and thus spending your time?”
“Na, na, Sir, he answered, “I m no the post, I m only an express!”
But these postboys became the special prey of the highway robbers, who often stopped them and ransacked their bags. In February, 1779, an advertisement appeared, stating that the boy carrying the mail for Liverpool, Manchester, Chester, aiid thirty other towns, besides the Irish niail, had been robbed of the whol – Victorian London – Communications – Post – Postal System http://www.victorianlondon.org/communications/postal.htm

Post Boys

Posting in England, about the time of the Tudors, and for some long time afterwards, was carried on by riders on horseback. These persons, who were generally young lads, were termed Post-boys. Their only livery was a scarlet jacket and waistcoat, given to them on the birthday of the reigning sovereign. They might often be seen loitering on the way, and rarely travelled quicker than three miles an hour; or, if sent on express business, managed to accomplish four miles in that time. Campbell writes:  ”

Near Inverary we regained a spot of comparative civilization, and came up with the postboy, whose horse was quietly grazing at some distance, whilst redjacket himself was immersed in play with other lads.
“You rascal! I said to him, “are you the post-boy, and thus spending your time?”
“Na, na, Sir, he answered, “I m no the post, I m only an express!”
But these postboys became the special prey of the highway robbers, who often stopped them and ransacked their bags. In February, 1779, an advertisement appeared, stating that the boy carrying the mail for Liverpool, Manchester, Chester, aiid thirty other towns, besides the Irish niail, had been robbed of the whole – Victorian London – Communications – Post – Postal System

Post Master

During the 17th and 18th centuries, postmasters had also been innkeepers due to the fact that they were responsible for finding post boys and horses, providing stabling, etc. Once recognized mails came into being, this was no longer necessary and it was felt that inns provided little security for the mailbags. By March 1836, only one post town in the entire country had an innkeeper as postmaster. More common were post offices run by druggists, stationers, grocers and booksellers. Kristine Hughes, Rakehell, 19th Century Mail

The Post Man, William Cowper

HARK ! ’tis the twanging horn o’er yonder bridge,
That with its wearisome but needful length
Bestrides the wintry flood, in which the moon
Sees her unwrinkled face reflected bright ;
He comes, the herald of a noisy world,
With spatter’d boots, strapp’d waist, and frozen
locks ;

News from all nations lumbering at his back.
True to his charge, the close-pack’d load behind,
Yet careless what he brings, his one concern
Is to conduct it to the destined inn:
And, having dropt the expected bag, pass on.
He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch,
Cold and yet cheerful: messenger of grief

Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to som ;
To him indifferent whether grief or joy.
Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks,
Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles wet
With tears, that trickled down the writer’s cheeks
Fast as the periods from his fluent quill,
Or charged with amorous sighs of absent swains,
Or nymphs responsive, equally affect
His horse and him, unconscious of them all.
But oh the important budget! usher’d in
With such heart-shaking music, who can say
What are its tidings? have our troops awaked?
Or do they still, as if with opium drugg’d,
Snore to the murmurs of the Atlantic wave?
Is India free? and does she wear her plumed
And jewell’d turban with a smile of peace,
Or do we grind her still? The grand debate,
The popular harangue, the tart reply,
The logic, and the wisdom, and the wit,
And the loud laugh I long to know them all;
I burn to set the imprison’d wranglers free,
And give them voice and utterance once again.

More on the topic

  • Victorian London – Communications – Post – Postal System
  • Her Majesties Mails, an historical and descriptive account of the British post-office, William Lewins, 1864, Internet Archive
  • Travellers in 18th Century England
  • Image of a Royal Mail Coach
  • Victorian London – Communications – Post – Postal System
  • The Mail Coach Service
  • Daily Life in 18th C. England, Kirstin Olsen, p 183.

This post was updated 29, September.

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  1. on September 12, 2009 at 05:36 A Soirée with Lady Susan: The Postal Service in 18th Century Britain: Letters and the Penny-Post « Austenprose

    […] Part 2 – The Postal Service in 18th Century Britain: Post Roads and Post-Boys […]


  2. on September 12, 2009 at 11:07 Mandy N

    Well, despite hazardous roads & highwaymen; postal carriers and hoses carried through Lady Susan’s & Mrs Johnson’s letters; lucky for us !… I paticularly enjoyed the vignettes on post-Houses, post boys and post ponies. Thanks again for your interesting research, Vic.


  3. on September 12, 2009 at 11:37 Vic

    You are so welcome, Mandy. Half the fun of researching in knowing that others find this topic as fascinating as moi!


  4. on September 12, 2009 at 13:54 Mandy N

    Thanks Vic , meant to say how much I like G. Morland’s painting of Post-Boys and Horses … Ooh ! I bet Charles Vernon had to pay for delivery of Alicia’s letters to Lady Susan at Churchill…. I’m sure everyone finds your posts of interest in the LS group read.


  5. on September 12, 2009 at 18:18 Keith H. Burgess

    A pitty the images are 19th century.
    Le Loup.


    • on September 12, 2009 at 19:45 Vic

      It is a pity. I tried mightily to find images of road conditions and of post-boys in the 18th century, but an image in 1820 was the closest I could get. My previous post featured an image of a post man circa 1800, still too modern. My Georgian books had no PO images that I could scan . Ah well.


  6. on September 12, 2009 at 23:10 Heather

    I’ve really been enjoying these posts, Vic! When I read your previous one I was wondering why the receiver had to pay (just didn’t seem logical) and now I’m doing the “oh, duh” to make sure it got there.


  7. on September 13, 2009 at 08:13 Vic

    Thanks, Heather. You know, that was news for me as well. It also meant that when Edmund Bertram franked Fanny’s letter to William, this was no guarantee that her letter would arrive in Portsmouth. That’s why he sent William a guinea! So that the young man had the means to pay for Fanny’s missives, which would be sure to arrive then.


  8. on September 13, 2009 at 19:54 Annette

    Great research and interesting post.
    Always a pleasure to visit your blog.


  9. on September 13, 2009 at 21:44 Stormi

    Wow you have a very nice blog here. I just love everything Austen and the century that goes with it. You are very informative…love it.


  10. on September 14, 2009 at 17:03 Lutemama

    Absolutely fascinating! I learn so much from your blog!!! Makes me feel quite lucky to simply walk to the end of my driveway to collect the mail.


  11. on September 15, 2009 at 00:28 Janeen

    This has been really interesting and I’ve enjoyed it a lot. I appreciate all the research you do and share with us readers. Looking forward to the next history lesson…. Austen style!


  12. on September 16, 2009 at 14:46 Cathy Allen

    Thanks Vic, this is quite fascinating (sorry, trite word, but very true!). Each sentence seemed to bring up more questions in my mind. One thing in particular that I had not given much thought to was the terrible condition of the roads… I complain because our California roads have been neglected of late — Phew!!

    I’m greatly enjoying this series. Thank you very much,
    Cathy Allen


  13. on September 16, 2009 at 21:37 Laura's Reviews

    Another fantastic post! Thank-you very much for doing the research into this. I have really enjoyed reading the series thus far!


  14. on September 18, 2009 at 17:38 novelwhore

    I’m really enjoying your website, it is so well done and really takes the reader back to Jane Austen’s time!

    I am trying to hold my first blog giveaway and think it’s a book you may enjoy, called ACCORDING TO JANE by debut author Marilyn Brant. She’s a wonderfully vivacious author that is able to maintain her personality in her novel. I would really be honored if you would comment and enter to win one of Mrs. Brant’s signed manuscripts! Of course it’s a much more fictionalized view of Ms. Austen than you portray here.

    The giveaway can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/lqx5p2

    Thank you and I look forward to following your blog!


  15. on September 19, 2009 at 04:59 Enid Wilson

    Vic, you’re a great source of info! I wonder if there was famous robbery of the post in the period.

    Bargain with the Devil


  16. on September 29, 2009 at 08:52 Sue Millard

    Some of your illustrations and references are confusing in this context, because they are 19th C pictures or references about carriage horses being used for horsing “post chaises”, which is not the same thing as carrying the mail. Your Henderson painting of post-boys for instance shows full driving neck collars and even the iron protector known as a “false leg” for the postboy’s (or postilion’s) right leg, to protect it from banging against the central pole of a pairs carriage while riding the nearside horse of the pair. These animals were not being used to carry mail. They are harnessed for driving.

    As I understand it the post chaise or posting house system was one of private hire, a relay system to enable fast travel without using one’s own horses. It was separate from the “postal” systeml. Notice that your reference from the Georgian Index is to pairs of “horses in harness” not horses saddled for a postboy to ride.

    Your citation about Fell ponies would benefit from info from the Fell Pony Museum (www.fellpony.f9.co.uk) or the Fell Pony Society (www.fellponysociety.org, which is the source of your image of the grey mare and foal on Harter Fell and outside that site the image is copyright Laura Hart). The reference claiming that Fells were the “mount of choice” is perhaps a little exaggerated as it is only based on historic info about ONE animal being used, ie Old Lingcropper.


    • on September 30, 2009 at 00:41 Vic

      Thank you for your comments. As I wrote in my sidebar, if you EMAIL me corrections, I shall make them with a polite smile on my face. Thank you for the excellent links to Fell Ponies and the Fell Pony Museum.


  17. on October 1, 2009 at 08:38 Yorkshire Coaching Inns Illustrated by Joseph Appleyard « Jane Austen’s World

    […] October 1, 2009 by Vic “Riding Through the Ridings”: Random Sketches of Yorkshire Coaching Inns was written and illustrated in 1947 by Joseph Appleyard. An unpublished book, it has found a home online through his son, David. The illustrations fit so well with my recent posts for post boys and the postal mail. […]


  18. on November 5, 2009 at 05:01 Christopher West

    Fascinating page! I particularly liked the material about Ralph Allen (I like Fielding even more than JA, so you’ll probably never speak to me again…) Many thanks and congrats on an excellent site, a great mixture of erudition and enthusiasm.


  19. on April 12, 2011 at 09:50 Mr. Edward Innes, Successful 18th c. Tradesman « Jane Austen's World

    […] The Postal Service in 18th Century Britain: Post Roads and Post Boys […]


  20. on April 23, 2012 at 13:24 K.N.

    Thanks so much for all of this information – well researched! It’s been very useful to me.


  21. on April 27, 2013 at 19:09 “Love is a Choice”, Ch. 18 (PG-13): Lady Charmaine’s Continuing Recovery Binds her Family Together, April 27, 2013 Gratiana Lovelace (Post #404) | Something About Love (A)

    […] 6)  I first heard the notion of “express mail” mentioned in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Ch. 49 found here at http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1342/1342-h/1342-h.htm , whereby a rider raced his horse to a destination and would get paid for his hurry at the other end as well;  Though in researching British postal history, they maddeningly leave mention of  early 1800’s express mail out,  I found three interesting sites about the “Royal Mail” and its history at http://www.postalheritage.org.uk/page/history , and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Mail, and at https://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/2009/09/12/the-postal-service-in-18th-century-britain-post-roa… […]



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