Travelling around the area in 1858
was still done by horse-drawn transport,
and so inns and hotels were needed for overnight stops.
A posting house (like
the Wynnstay Arms) was an inn where
coaches made scheduled stops and travellers could stay.
The whole area was dotted with small
public houses, and even some small villages had several.
Working men had such hard miserable lives in Victorian times that many
of them escaped to the pub when they could.
