Punch magazines view of a coach in 1850   Most poor people walked in Victorian times with cycles gaining in affordability and thus popularity in Edwardian times. It was nor abnormal to walk 3 miles to church, shops or for celebrations. People regularly made the three/four hour walk to the town of Maldon and even the six hour walk to Chelmsford. The slightly more wealthy were able to use the common carrier whop operated a basic horse drawn cart. Carriers operated from Bradwell, Tillingham and Southminster to Chelmsford and Maldon and a carrier from Southminster made a twice weekly trip to Aldgate in London. The better off would use a coach which provided a private covered carriage compete with guard and driver that provide a daily service from Burnham to Chelmsford and Brentwood to Aldgate but as the average wages were about 7 shillings and sixpence the cost of the coach at one pound two shillings was prohibitive for normal people. In 1795 the Times lists Post Coaches as departing from the Bull Inn at Whitechapel daily. The coach for Eastern Essex departed at 10 o'clock in the morning on Monday's, Wednesday's and Friday's calling at Romford, Brentwood, Ingatestone, Margaretiing, Mountnessing, Ingatestone, Widford, Chelmsford, Sandon, Baddow, Danbury, Purleigh, Woodham Mortimer, Maldon, Hazeleigh, St Lawrence, Bradwell, Snoreham, Cold Norton, Mayland, Althorne, Dengie, Steeple, Creeksea, Foulness, Burnham, Southminster. The places mentioned indicate the route taken in those times from London to Southminster although the route through the villages at the end seems to take a rather elongated route.