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In 1876 Captain Cecil Otway changed his route to Aberysth- 

 with and Presteign ; Mr. Pryce Hamilton plied between Ross and 

 Tintern ; the Newnham, Gloucester, and Cheltenham coach 

 was in the hands of Mr. Robert Chapman and Mr. Platt ; a 

 coach ran between Leamington and Stratford-on-Avon, and 

 another between Cheltenham and Malvern ; while Colonel 

 Somerset in 1877 ran from Enfield to Hitchin. In the same 

 year a coach was started between Cheadle and Manchester, 

 while in 1878 Mr. C. B. E. Wright, master of the Badsworth 

 put on a coach from Buxton to Matlock, and Lord Aylesford 

 one from Birmingham to Coventry, his horses coming from 

 Charles Ward of the Paxton Stables. In 1879 Mr. Augustus 

 Craven ran the Blenheim to Cheltenham in connection with 

 Mr. Carleton Blyth's Defiance from Cambridge to Oxford ; 

 and Leamington had two coaches, one to Stratford-on-Avon, 

 the other to Coventry, the Malvern and Cheltenham still keep- 

 ing on. 



Mr. Parsons, who had formerly been on the St. Albans road 

 out of London, carried out, in 1880, his intention of running a 

 coach between Reading and Brighton via Dorking and Guild- 

 ford, changing in the succeeding yearzvVz Worthing, Arundel, 

 and Chichester to Brighton and Portsmouth, while a coach 

 was now running between Melksham and Bristol. Meantime 

 at a previous period Colonel C. Rivers-Bulkeley, who as 'Mr/ 

 Charles' was well known between the flags on earlier days, ran 

 from Rhyl to Bettws-y-Coed. In this year, too, Mr. Slater 

 ran from Dover to Deal, and Mr. R. S. Hudson put on a 

 coach between York and Liverpool, and while on its last stage, 

 on the last day of the season, an accident occurred which was 

 very nearly attended with fatal consequences to the passengers; 

 While descending a steep hill between Prescot and Liverpool 

 the horses bolted, and came into contact with a wall at the 

 bottom. Two of the horses were killed and the passengers 

 were severely shaken. In 1882 Captain J. R. P. Goodden and 

 Captain W. W. Tumor, assisted it is believed by Captain Fife, 

 started a coach from Sherborne to Weymouth ; and in 1883 



