Publisher's blurb: Coaching Inns serve a vital role in the transport infrastructure of nations with a coach or trading caravan system. In addition to the roles of urban inns which serve food and drinks and offer accommodation for the night, coaching inns also offer additional services for coaching or waggon companies. The inns have large stables where horses or other draft animals can be accommodated, they offer feed, shelter and a farrier service for these animals and they also often have a system where tired teams of draft animals can be exchanged for fresh teams.