Year built :
Telfords task :
report
Length :
159 miles
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Number of structures
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Comments :
Having had occasion incidentally to mention the coach which conveys the mail between Inverness and Thurso on the roads which we have been describing, we cannot avoid stating succinctly, that in July 1819, about the time when the Road Repair Act of that year received the Royal Assent, a mail coach was established for two years. This coach, starting from Inverness daily at six o'clock in the morning, arrives at Thurso (on the north coast) between eleven and twelve the next day; and, returning every evening from Thurso at seven o'clock, arrives at Inverness between twelve and one, performing (as it is termed) one hundred and fifty-nine miles each way with modest apparatus, and twelve changes of horses. [LIFE] 396
