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The Holyhead Road: The Mail-coach Road to Dublin. Vol. 2

Chapter 3: THE HOLYHEAD ROAD
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A travel and local-history narrative traces the old mail-coach route from Birmingham across the Midlands into Wales and onward to the Anglesey port, describing towns, inns, bridges, and notable landscape features encountered along the way. The account blends topographical description with historical anecdotes and antiquarian observations, illustrated by plates and sketches, and notes coaching architecture, milestones, and local customs. It highlights river crossings, mountain passes, waterfalls, and lakes, and records practical route particulars while reflecting on the transformations brought by railways and other modern changes to the older road network.

THE HOLYHEAD ROAD

Birmingham to Holyhead

MILES
Birmingham (General Post Office) 109¼
Hockley 110½
Soho 111¼
Handsworth 111¾
West Bromwich 114½
Hilltop 116
Wednesbury 117¼
Moxley 118½
Bilston 119½
Wolverhampton 122¼
Chapel Ash 122¾
Tettenhall 124
The Wergs 125¼
Boningale 129½
Whiston Cross 130¼
Shiffnal 134¼
Prior’s Lee 137½
Ketley 139
Ketley Railway Station 139½
(Junction of Watling Street with Holyhead Road.)
Wellington (“Cock”) 140½
Haygate 141½
Burcot Toll-House 143
Norton 146½
Tern Bridge 147½
(Cross River Tern.)
Atcham 148¼
(Cross River Severn.)
Shrewsbury (Abbey Foregate) 151¼
(Cross River Severn.)
Shrewsbury (Market House) 152
Shrewsbury (Welsh Bridge and Frankwell) 152¼
(Cross River Severn.)
Shelton Oak 154
Bicton 154½
Montford Bridge 156¾
(Cross River Severn.)
Nesscliff 160½
West Felton 165¼
Queen’s Head 166¼
Oswestry 170
Gobowen 172¾
Chirk 175
(Cross River Ceiriog.)
Whitehurst Toll-House 177
Vron Cysylltan 179¾
Llangollen 182½
Berwyn Railway Station 184¼
Glyndyfrdwy 188
Carrog 189
Corwen 192½
(Cross River Dee.)
Maerdy Post Office 196
Pont-y-Glyn 197¾
Tynant 198¼
Cerrig-y-Druidion 202
Glasfryn 204½
Cernioge 205¾
Pentre Voelas 207¾
Bettws-y-Coed 214½
(Cross River Conway)
Swallow Falls 216
Cyfyng Falls 218½
Tan-y-Bwlch 219
Capel Curig 220
Llyn Ogwen 224
Ogwen Falls} 225
Pass of Nant Ffrancon}
Tyn-y-Maes 228
Bethesda 229¼
Llandegai 232¾
Bangor (Cathedral) 234½
Upper Bangor 236
Menai Bridge 237
(Cross Menai Straits)
Menai Village 237¼
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerchwyrndrobwlltysiliogogogoch 239¼
Gaerwen 242½
Pentre Berw (Holland Arms) 243
Llangristiolus 245½
Mona 247½
Gwalchmai 249¾
Bryngwran 252½
Caer Ceiliog 255
Valley 256
Stanley Sands 256¼
(Cross Stanley Sands Viaduct to Holy Island)
Holyhead (Admiralty Pier) 260½

THE OLD ROAD FROM MENAI VILLAGE TO HOLYHEAD

MILES
Menai Village 237¼
Braint 239½
Ceint 242½
Llangefni 244¾
Bodffordd 247
Gwyndû and Glanyrafon 249¾
Llynfaes 250¼
Trefor 251¼
Bodedern 254
Llanyngenedl 255¼
Valley and Four-Mile Bridge 258¼
Trearddur Bay 261½
(Cross Causeway over Straits to Holy Island)
Holyhead 263½