HACKNEY COACH AND CHARIOT FARES;

Commencing June 23, 1808, [48 Geo. III. cap. 87.]

FARES ACCORDING TO DISTANCE.

Not exceeding s. d.
One mile 1 0
One mile and a half 1 6
Two miles 2 0
Two miles and a half 3 0
Three miles 3 6
Three miles and a half 4 0
Four miles 4 6
Four miles and a half 5 6
Five miles 6 0
Five miles and a half 6 6
Six miles 7 0
Six miles and a half 8 0
Seven miles 8 6
Seven miles and a half 9 0
Eight miles 9 6
Eight miles and a half 10 6
Nine miles 11 0
Nine miles and a half 11 6
Ten miles 12 0
Ten miles and a half 13 0
Eleven miles 13 6
Twelve miles 15 0

And so on, at the rate of 6d. for every half mile, and an additional 6d. for every two miles completed.

FARES ACCORDING TO TIME.

Not exceeding s. d.
Thirty minutes 1 0
Forty-five minutes 1 6
One hour 2 0
One hour and 20 minutes 3 0
One hour and 40 minutes 4 0
Two hours 5 6
Two hours and 20 minutes 6 0
Two hours and 40 minutes 7 0
Three hours 8 0
Three hours and 20 minutes 9 0
Three hours and 40 minutes 10 6
Four hours 11 0

And so on, at the rate of 6d. for any fifteen minutes further time. Cabriolets are entitled to two-thirds of the Coach fares.

Mem.—A Coachman may contract to drive you to a certain Place for a certain Sum, and if it exceeds the distance which you are entitled to be carried for such Sum—he cannot demand more.

The fares are to be taken by the Hour or Mile only, and not by the Day.

Coaches discharged after Sun-set hours (viz. after 8 between Lady Day and Michaelmas, and after 5 between Michaelmas and Lady Day,) between the carriage-way pavement, or if hired at a stand beyond the same, may demand the full fare back to such extremity or standing.

For Coaches hired to go into the country in the day-time, and there discharged, additional fares are to be taken for their return to the pavement or next stand where hired, as follow: for 10 miles, 5s.; 8 miles, 4s.; 6 miles, 3s.; and 4 miles, 2s. If under 4 miles, nothing.

Coachmen are not compellable to take more than four, nor Chariots more than three, adult persons inside, and a servant out: but if they agree to take more, then 1s., in addition to the fare, must be paid for each extra person; and if the coach be hired for the country, and to return, 1s. for each extra person going, and 1s. for his returning.

Abusive Language.—The Drivers behaving rudely, or using abusive Language, are to forfeit not more than £10,—in default of payment, are sent to the House of Correction for any time the Magistrate may please, not exceeding two months.

Extortion.—Coachmen refusing to go on, or extorting more than their fare, are to forfeit not more than 3l. nor less than 10s. Not only the Commissioners in Essex Street, Strand, but also the Magistrates at the Police-offices, determine such Offences, and inflict Punishments.

Obligation to go on.—If a Coach be drawn off the Stand to the side of the pavement, it is equally as liable to be hired as if it stood on the Stand, and the Coachman may be made to go with you, if not hired—if he refuses, he is liable to be fined. They are compellable, if plying for hire, at any hour of the Day or the Night, to go upon all Turnpike roads, any where within Two miles and a half from the end of the Carriage-way pavement.

Articles left in a Hackney Coach are (by a late Act) to be taken to the Hackney Coach Office, Essex Street, Strand, on pain of paying 20l.; to be recovered on application to the Commissioners, or a Justice of the Peace.

The Coachman is to take the shortest way, and to charge accordingly: but if he, from choice or ignorance, does otherwise, he can make no extra charge.

He may refuse to take Heavy Luggage, unless he is paid something more than the fare; but he must object to it before it be put into the Coach: he cannot, however, object to take a small Parcel that may be carried in the hand.

When a Coachman is desired to wait, he may demand a sum in hand beyond his previous fare, and is accountable for such sum when you discharge him. He is not bound to wait without such a detainer, nor longer than it will pay for the time.

See a comprehensive Abstract of the 18 Acts of Parliament relating to Hackney Coaches, in p. 765 of Vol. II. of Sir George Chetwynd’s edition of Dr. Burn’s Justice, 8vo. 1825.

Those who wish to ascertain distance very exactly, I advise to purchase

Mr. Quaife’s Hackney Coach Directory, which is sold only at the Hackney Coach Office in Essex Street, Strand, and contains nearly Eighteen Thousand Fares from actual Measurements, and

Cary’s New Guide for ascertaining
Hackney Coach Fares, Price 3s. 6d.

This elaborate work gives an actual admeasurement of every Street in the Metropolis, and affords the means of ascertaining the Length of any Route, however indirect.

We subjoin, as a Specimen, the Two first pages of this Work.

The first and second Column contain the Distance of one Street from the other as they occur in the Route; the third, fourth, and fifth, the total or full Length from the Commencement.—M. signifies Mile—F. Furlong—P. Pole.

PICCADILLY.

Hyde Park Turnpike to Leadenhall Street.

Streets, &c. passed through:—Piccadilly, Haymarket, Cockspur Street, Charing Cross, Strand, Fleet Street, Ludgate Hill, Ludgate Street, St. Paul’s Churchyard, Cheapside, Poultry, Mansion House Street, Cornhill, Leadenhall Street, Aldgate Street, Aldgate, Aldgate High Street, Whitechapel, and Mile End Old Town.

F.P.M.F.P.
Piccadilly.—————
To Hamilton Street35
Park Lane16 111
Down Street24 135
Engine Street18 213
White Horse Street20 233
Half Moon Street14 3 7
Clarges Street 9 316
Bolton Street11 327
Stratton Street10 337
Berkley Street15 412
Arlington and Dover Streets13 425
St. James and Albemarle Streets12 437
Bond Street10 5 7
Duke Street19 526
Sackville Street18 6 4
Swallow Street 8 612
Air Street19 631
Eagle Street 2 633
The Haymarket35 728
7 .. 28
Enter Haymarket.
To Norris and Panton Streets26 114
James Street11 125
Theatre 6 131
Suffolk Street and Opera House11 1 1 2
Pall Mall11 1 113
1 .. 25
Enter Cockspur Street.
Suffolk Street14 1 127
Whitcomb Street10 1 137
Spring Gardens 5 1 2 2
0 .. 29
Enter Charing Cross.
Statue Of King Charles19 1 221
St. Martin’s Lane15 1 236
0 .. 34
Enter Strand.
Northumberland Street 2 1 238
Hungerford Street15 1 313
Villiers Street12 1 325
Buckingham Street 9 1 334
Bedford Street21 1 415
Adam Street13 1 428
Salisbury Street13 1 5 1
Cecil Street 7 1 5 8
Southampton Street 5 1 513
Beaufort Buildings 7 1 520
Burleigh Street15 1 535
Catherine Street25 1 620
Somerset Place14 1 634
New Church and Little Drury Lane16 1 710
Newcastle Street 3 1 7 3
Surry Street11 1 724
Norfolk Street10 1 734
Arundel Street 9 2 3
Essex Street18 221
Temple Bar24 2 1 5
6 .. 9
Enter Fleet Street.
To Chancery Lane13 2 118
Fetter Lane23 2 221
Serjeants’ Inn 6 2 2 7
Bouverie Street11 2 218
Water Lane11 2 229
Salisbury Court17 2 3 6
Shoe Lane 1 2 3 7
Fleet Market29 2 336
2 .. 31
Enter Ludgate Hill.
Old Bailey29 2 425
St. Martin’s Ludgate Church18 2 5 3
1 .. 7
Enter Ludgate Street.
Creed and Ave Maria Lanes 8 2 511
St. Paul’s Churchyard 8 2 519
0 .. 16
Enter St. Paul’s Churchyard.
Paul’s Chain18 2 537
Watling Street25 2 622
Cheapside28 2 713
1 .. 31
Enter Cheapside.
Old Change 5 2 715
Foster Lane 3 2 718
Gutter Lane13 2 731
Friday Street 6 2 737
Wood Street 5 3 2
Bread Street 5 3 7
Milk Street 2 3 9
Bow Churchyard11 320
Bow Lane 4 324
Lawrence Lane 7 331
King and Queen Streets 5 336
Ironmonger Lane 4 3 1
Bucklersbury 9 3 1 9
1 .. 39
Enter Poultry.
To Old Jewry 4 3 113
Charlotte Row24 3 137
0 .. 28
Enter Mansion House Street.
Mansion House5322
Bank Buildings203222
0 .. 25
Enter Cornhill.
Royal Exchange 9 3 231
Freeman’s Court12 3 3 3
Birchin Lane 3 3 3 6
Finch Lane 1 3 3 7
Gracechurch and Bishopsgate Streets27 3 334
1 .. 12