The Crown Inn, near the Butter Cross, is centrically situated, and travellers meet with civility and attention.
Besides these, there are numerous others, which cannot here be detailed, but in all of them of respectable name, the stranger will experience a civility and attention which in houses of this description are not in all places to be met with.
Public Offices.
The Post Office is kept in Dogpole. It opens at seven in the morning and closes at nine at night, and is shut during divine service on Sundays. To London the mail goes out daily at eleven o’clock (except Saturday.) To Holyhead and Ireland every evening at three o’clock. To Ludlow, Hereford, and South Wales every morning at eleven. To Chester, through Ellesmere and Wrexham every evening at three o’clock. To Pool, and all Merionethshire, (except Bala and Corwen) Aberystwith, every evening about half past three o’clock, and to Whitchurch, Wem, Hawkstone, Prees, and Malpas, every evening by horse post, soon after the arrival of the London mail. The Stamp Office is kept in the Corn Market, as is also the Salop Fire Office. The Collector’s Office for the receipt of the excise duties, is held in Barker Street. The Clerk of the Peace’s Office is at the Town Hall.
Bankers.
Messrs. Beck, Dodson, Eatons and Beck, draw on Masterman and Co.
Messrs. Burton, Lloyd, Lloyd, and Salt, draw on Stephenson, Remmington, and Co.
Messrs. Rocke, Eyton, Campbell, and Bayley, draw on Robarts, Curtis, and Co.
The banks are open every day from ten o’clock till four.