These people in a country near you have gathered up a lot of information http://www.home.gil.com.au/~ears/phtoc.html David On 16 Mar 2008, at 23:18, M Robinson wrote: > Can anyone help with information on mail services in Herefordshire > about the year 1800? > > In Australia early in the 19th century, the government advertised > mail contracts and individuals who won these contracts carried the > mail to various parts of the country, on horseback, or in coaches. > I presume much the same happened in England. > > I am interested in a possible mail route from Hereford along what is > now the A 465, through Kenderchurch to Abergavenny. Would records > of mail contracts and routes be kept at Record Offices? > > M Robinson > ---- ENG-HEREFORD Mailing List ---- > A genealogy and local history list covering the County of Hereford > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-HEREFORD-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message

That is indeed a very interesting site, and had given me lots of general information about postal services in England, but finding specific information about small parishes like Kenderchurch and Ewyas Harold is always challenging. I wonder if there are any extant records for the post runners and later the coaches that carried the mail. Or for the places where post was deposited for individual collection (fore runners of our post offices). Maureen Robinson.