Inns [ Residences & Lodgings ]
… major roads in the provinces, and town centres, and in cities. They also functioned as sociable spaces for locals, travellers, tradesmen, and politicians. In the hierarchy of eighteenth-century drinking-places, inns were superior to … network in the nineteenth century, they began to decline. Places > Residences & Lodgings Keywords Drinking Hospitality Travel In the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a period which John Chartres has called ‘the golden age of the … they were an important part of the transportation network. Horses were changed at inns and goods were unloaded, while travellers boarded or left the coaches. Larger inns often had courtyards with galleries, from which travellers could …
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