... were employed as agricultural Laborers or as individual shopkeepers such as Butchers, groceries, tailor. Doncaster was considered a wealthy town as the coaching trade brought visitors and new Businesses. On the 1828 map Doncaster is described as a "wealthy and beautiful town" if you compare Doncaster and Sheffield in the 1820's due to the 1828 map of Doncaster and the 1822 map of Sheffield, you see that Sheffield is an unattractive industrial town with hardly any scenery and with close together houses. Doncaster had beautiful houses such as the mansion house and Elmfield house, so the landed gentry would often travel by coach; these people were most often businessmen, which added wealth to Doncaster. However much the coaching trade helped to develop communications in Doncaster, it was not the only source that contributed. The market had always been in Doncaster and had always continued to bring trade toward Doncaster, the ...

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