A journey by carriage between Exeter and London takes eight days in summer or ten in winter.
A timeline of carriages

The carriage collection at Arlington Court spans over four hundred years and boasts a variety of carriages for all occasions. Below is a basic timeline of the evolution of coach travel, featuring the creation dates of some of the carriages in the collection.
Whilst we can't be certain of the exact dates for many of our carriages, we know from old magazines and adverts when new desings of carriage came into fashion.
Timeline
1673
Long journeys
1698
Grand designs
Speaker’s State Coach is designed, originally for William III before being passed to the Speaker of the House of Commons by Queen Anne.

1750
Landau
The Landau is introduced into England. Landaus became very popular with the professional and middle classes as a versatile carriage for all types of driving conditions.

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