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Description: Altarnun: The Kings Head, Fivelanes, near to Fivelanes, Cornwall, Great Britain. Fivelanes is now bypassed by the modern A30 Trunk Road but in the early nineteenth century it was a place of some importance. In 1816 Five Lanes � as it then was � was one of five district centres for Thomas Russell & Co�s flying waggons, plying between Falmouth, Exeter and London, sometimes carrying bullion from the mail vessels or packets shipped from places such as Lisbon, Malta and Jamaica [Source: Dorian Gerhold. Road Transport before the Railways. Russell�s London Flying Waggons. Cambridge University Press, 1993]
Title: Altarnun - The Kings Head, Fivelanes - geograph.org.uk - 511738
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