(See
the pages onEarning a living)
It also gives us a picture of the coach services at the time Queen Victoria came to the throne.
This was the only means people had of travelling beyond the area into the wider world at that time.
As
you can see from the timetable, the coaches connected Llanfair with Shrewsbury
in England and with the towns of the Welsh coast.
It must have been a long hard journey over to the coast in bad weather
for those passengers who could not afford a seat inside the coach and
had to sit on top !
The coach driver would change the horses
whenever they stopped at a coaching inn like the Goat in Llanfair Caereinion.
By changing the horses regularly when they grew tired the coach could
keep up a quicker pace.
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