The traveller's oracle; or, maxims for locomotion, part 2 (of 2)

by John Jervis

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.

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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 Street						35
Park Lane		16			1	11
Down Street		24			1	35
Engine Street		18			2	13
White Horse Street		20			2	33
Half Moon Street		14			3	7
Clarges Street		9			3	16
Bolton Street		11			3	27
Stratton Street		10			3	37
Berkley Street		15			4	12
Arlington and Dover Streets		13			4	25
St. James and Albemarle Streets		12			4	37
Bond Street		10			5	7
Duke Street		19			5	26
Sackville Street		18			6	4
Swallow Street		8			6	12
Air Street		19			6	31
Eagle Street		2			6	33
The Haymarket		35			7	28
7 .. 28
Enter Haymarket.
To Norris and Panton Streets		26		1		14
James Street		11		1		25
Theatre		6		1		31
Suffolk Street and Opera House		11		1	1	2
Pall Mall		11		1	1	13
1 .. 25
Enter Cockspur Street.
Suffolk Street		14		1	1	27
Whitcomb Street		10		1	1	37
Spring Gardens		5		1	2	2
0 .. 29
Enter Charing Cross.
Statue Of King Charles		19		1	2	21
St. Martin’s Lane		15		1	2	36
0 .. 34
Enter Strand.
Northumberland Street		2		1	2	38
Hungerford Street		15		1	3	13
Villiers Street		12		1	3	25
Buckingham Street		9		1	3	34
Bedford Street		21		1	4	15
Adam Street		13		1	4	28
Salisbury Street		13		1	5	1
Cecil Street		7		1	5	8
Southampton Street		5		1	5	13
Beaufort Buildings		7		1	5	20
Burleigh Street		15		1	5	35
Catherine Street		25		1	6	20
Somerset Place		14		1	6	34
New Church and Little Drury Lane		16		1	7	10
Newcastle Street		3		1	7	3
Surry Street		11		1	7	24
Norfolk Street		10		1	7	34
Arundel Street		9		2		3
Essex Street		18		2		21
Temple Bar		24		2	1	5
6 .. 9
Enter Fleet Street.
To Chancery Lane		13		2	1	18
Fetter Lane		23		2	2	21
Serjeants’ Inn		6		2	2	7
Bouverie Street		11		2	2	18
Water Lane		11		2	2	29
Salisbury Court		17		2	3	6
Shoe Lane		1		2	3	7
Fleet Market		29		2	3	36
2 .. 31
Enter Ludgate Hill.
Old Bailey		29		2	4	25
St. Martin’s Ludgate Church		18		2	5	3
1 .. 7
Enter Ludgate Street.
Creed and Ave Maria Lanes		8		2	5	11
St. Paul’s Churchyard		8		2	5	19
0 .. 16
Enter St. Paul’s Churchyard.
Paul’s Chain		18		2	5	37
Watling Street		25		2	6	22
Cheapside		28		2	7	13
1 .. 31
Enter Cheapside.
Old Change		5		2	7	15
Foster Lane		3		2	7	18
Gutter Lane		13		2	7	31
Friday Street		6		2	7	37
Wood Street		5		3		2
Bread Street		5		3		7
Milk Street		2		3		9
Bow Churchyard		11		3		20
Bow Lane		4		3		24
Lawrence Lane		7		3		31
King and Queen Streets		5		3		36
Ironmonger Lane		4		3	1
Bucklersbury		9		3	1	9
1 .. 39
Enter Poultry.
To Old Jewry		4		3	1	13
Charlotte Row		24		3	1	37
0 .. 28
Enter Mansion House Street.
Mansion House		5		3	2	2
Bank Buildings		20		3	2	22
0 .. 25
Enter Cornhill.
Royal Exchange		9		3	2	31
Freeman’s Court		12		3	3	3
Birchin Lane		3		3	3	6
Finch Lane		1		3	3	7
Gracechurch and Bishopsgate Streets		27		3	3	34
1 .. 12

FOOTNOTES:

[1] The Expense of King George the Third’s State Coach which was made in the year 1762, was—