Great Britain - The Imperforate Issues (1840-1853)

Numeral Cancellations of English Provincial Towns (Numbers 500 to 549)

500 Haslingden

Lancashire

Earliest recorded use :

[PG] plate 110, cancelled with black numeral (500 Haslingden).

[HK] plate 15, cancelled with
 blue Haslingden Penny Post
and then
a black Maltese cross

[BG] from Haslingden to Burnley dated (on arrival) 22 February 1843,
cancelled solely with a black framed Haslingden Penny Post [e]
 

[KD] plate 7, from Haslingden to Blackburn, dated 22 January 1841,
cancelled with a black Haslingden Penny Post and a red Maltese cross

501 Rawtenstall

Lancashire

Earliest recorded use :

[MD] plate 128, cancelled with black numeral (501 Rawtenstall).

[IB] plate 48, on entire dated 25 Nov 1844 from Rawtenstall to Bury, cancelled
 with blue numeral (501 Rawtenstall).
 

[LA] on entire from Rawtenstall to Halifax dated 2 August 1845,
cancelled with a blue 501 numeral of Rawtenstall.
 

[EF] plate 70, from Rawtenstall to Ilkley, dated 13 October 1847,
cancelled with a black numeral (501 Rawtenstall)
 

502 Stalybridge

Cheshire

Earliest recorded use :

[PK] plate 88, cancelled with black numeral (502 Stalybridge).

[QI] cancelled with black numeral (502 Stalybridge).

[FK] cancelled with black numeral (502 Stalybridge).

[TL] cancelled with
 a black numeral
(502 Stalybridge)

[RI] plate 40, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(502 Stalybridge)

503 Manningtree

Essex

Earliest recorded use :

[DE] plate 142, cancelled with black numeral (503 Manningtree).

[TL] plate 3, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(503 Manningtree)

[BJ] plate 77, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(503 Manningtree)

504 Mansfield

Nottinghamshire

Earliest recorded use :

[QI] plate 137, cancelled with black numeral (504 Mansfield).

[QC] plate 150, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(504 Mansfield)

[JG] plate 85, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(504 Mansfield)

505 March

Cambridgeshire

Earliest recorded use :

506 Margate

Kent

Earliest recorded use :

[PA] plate 171, cancelled
with black numeral
(506 Margate).

[KK] cancelled with
 a black numeral
(506 Margate)

[GE] plate 93, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(506 Margate)

[BD] cancelled with
 a blue numeral
(506 Margate)

[EJ] plate 42, from Margate to Warwick, dated 21 May 1844,
cancelled with a black numeral (506 Margate)

507 Marazion

Cornwall

Earliest recorded use :

[PK] plate 85, cancelled
with a black numeral
(507 Marazion).

508 Market Deeping

Lincolnshire

Earliest recorded use :

[RE] plate 102, cancelled with blue numeral (508 Market Deeping).

[RJ] plate 55, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(508 Market Deeping)

509 Market Drayton

Salop

Earliest recorded use :

[HI] plate 111, cancelled with blue numeral (509 Market Drayton).

[GL] plate 103, cancelled with blue numeral (509 Market Drayton).

[AE-AF] pair, plate 116, cancelled with
black numerals
(509 Market Drayton)

[GA-HB] block of four, plate 81, cancelled with
blue numerals (509 Market Drayton)

510 Woore

Salop

Earliest recorded use :

511 Market Harborough

Leicestershire

Earliest recorded use :

[GG-GH] pair, cancelled with
black numerals (511 Market Harborough).

[NH] plate 64, cancelled with
black numeral (511 Market Harborough).

[AD] plate 62, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(511 Market Harborough)

[DD] plate 39, on wrapper from Market Harborough to Buckingham dated 29 May 1844,
cancelled by black numeral (511 Market Harborough).
 

512 Market Raisin

Lincolnshire

Earliest recorded use :

[HK] plate 4, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(512 Market Raisin)
Thinned stars

513 Market Street

Hertfordshire

Earliest recorded use :

514 Market Weighton

Yorkshire

Earliest recorded use :

[AF] cancelled with
 a black numeral
(514 Market Weighton)

515 South Cave

Yorkshire

Earliest recorded use :

[RK] on piece, cancelled
with blue numeral
(515 South Cave).

[LE] cancelled with
 a blue numeral
(515 South Cave)

[NJ-NL] plate 3, strip of three, cancelled with
blue numerals (515 South Cave).

[GB] cancelled with
 a blue numeral
(515 South Cave)

516 Marlborough

Wiltshire

Earliest recorded use :

[MG] plate 58, cancelled with black numeral (516 Marlborough).

[SD] plate 70, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(516 Marlborough)

[TH] plate 43, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(516 Marlborough)

[AD] plate 37, from Marlborough to London, dated 15 February 1844,
cancelled with a blue-black Maltese cross (mixed inks)
 

517 Great Bedwin

Wiltshire

Earliest recorded use :

[FH] plate 47, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(517 Great Bedwyn)

518 Marlow

Buckinghamshire

Earliest recorded use :

[GI] plate 70, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(518 Marlow)

519 Maryport

Cumberland

Earliest recorded use :

[JH] cancelled with black numeral (519 Maryport).

[QE] on dated piece (2 July 1845) from Maryport to Carlisle.
Cancelled with black numeral (519 Maryport).
 

520 Matlock

Derbyshire

Earliest recorded use :

521 Melksham

Wiltshire

Earliest recorded use :

[RH] plate 80, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(521 Melksham)

[QH] plate 170, from Melksham to London, dated 12 December 1853,
cancelled with a black numeral (521 Melksham)
 

522 Melton Mowbray

Leicestershire

Earliest recorded use :

[II] plate 45, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(522 Melton Mowbray)

[LE-LG] strip of three, plate 168, cancelled with
black numerals (522 Melton Mowbray)

524 Middlewich

Cheshire

Earliest recorded use :

[AF] plate 41 (very worn) on piece cancelled with black numeral (524 Middlewich).

[LJ] plate 160, cancelled with
black numeral (524 Middlewich

[BJ] plate 3, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(524 Middlewich)

525 Holmes Chapel

Cheshire

Earliest recorded use :

[GC] plate 93, cancelled
with a black numeral
(525 Holmes Chapel).

526 Winsford

Cheshire

Earliest recorded use :

[KH] plate 89, cancelled with black numeral (526 Winsford).

527 Midhurst

Sussex

Earliest recorded use :

528 Mildenhall

Suffolk

Earliest recorded use :

530 Milnethorpe

Westmorland

Earliest recorded use :

[?H] cancelled with black numeral (530 Milnethorpe).

[JD] plate 41, cancelled first with a black maltese cross and then with a black numeral (530 Milnthorpe).

[HA-JA] vertical strip of three, plate 3, cancelled
with black numerals
(530 Milnethorpe).

[NI-NJ] plate 4, pair on dated piece (29 April 1850),
cancelled with two black numerals (530 Milnethorpe).

[LF and SE] two singles on entire to Lancaster (via Milnethorpe) dated 11 October 1844,
cancelled with a black maltese crosses and then black 530 numerals of Milnethorpe.
 

[TL] on envelope from Milnethorpe to Liverpool dated 5 July 1849,
cancelled by blue 530 numeral (Milnethorpe)
 

[IA] plate 3, on letter sheet from Milnethorpe to Lancaster, dated 1 January 1849,
cancelled by two strikes of the 530 numeral (Milnethorpe)
first in blue and then in black.
 

[RJ] plate 43, cancelled with black numeral (530 Milnethorpe)

[CA] plate 4, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(530 Milnethorpe)

[OD] plate 31, on wrapper from Milnethorpe to Kendal, dated 5 June 1843,
cancelled with the black maltese cross of Milnethorpe.
 

[RH] plate 5, from Milnethorpe to Kendal, dated 13 April 1841,
cancelled with a black Maltese cross of Milnethorpe
 

[GD] plate 93, from Milnethorpe to Kendal, dated 6 December 1850,
cancelled with blue numerals (530 Milnethorpe)
Also has Cark in Cartmel and Newton in Cartmel undated circles on reverse

534 Moreton in Marsh

Gloucestershire

Earliest recorded use :

535 Stow on the Wold

Gloucestershire

Earliest recorded use :

[RH] on wrapper to Salisbury dated 3 May 1844,
cancelled by a black numeral (535 Stow).

[PI] plate 97, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(535 Stow on the Wold)

536 Winchcombe

Gloucestershire

Earliest recorded use :

[TJ] on piece, cancelled with
brown Maltese Crosses of Winchcomb [c]
 

[AC] plate 88, cancelled with
 a blue numeral
(536 Winchcombe)

[TK] plate 113, cancelled with
 a blue numeral
(536 Winchcombe)

[DE] from Winchcombe to London, dated 15 January 1845,
cancelled with a blue numeral (536 Winchcombe)
 

[DF] plate 100, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(536 Winchcombe)

537 Morpeth

Northumberland

Earliest recorded use :

538 Nantwich

Cheshire

Earliest recorded use :

[PG-PH] plate 57, pair cancelled
contrary to regulations
 with a single  black numeral (538 Nantwich).

[AJ] plate 70, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(538 Nantwich)

541 Newark

Nottinghamshire

Earliest recorded use :

[KF] cancelled with black numeral (541 Newark).

[NH] cancelled with
 a black numeral
(541 Newark)

[ME] plate 77, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(541 Newarkl)

[JA] plate 86, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(541 Newark)

542 Southwell

Nottinghamshire

Earliest recorded use :

543 Carlton on Trent

Nottinghamshire

Earliest recorded use :

[QI] plate 66, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(543 Carlton on Trent)

[TD] cancelled with
 a black numeral
(543 Carlton on Trent)

544 Newbury

Berkshire

Earliest recorded use :

[CI] cancelled with black numeral (544 Newbury).

[SD] plate 101, cancelled with black numeral (544 Newbury).

[CJ] plate 73, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(544 Newbury)

[BB] plate 163, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(544 Newbury)

[FA-FB] pair, plate 73, cancelled with
black numerals (544 Newbury)
 

[FC-GD] block of four, plate 4, cancelled with
black numerals (544 Newbury)

545 Newcastle on Tyne

Northumberland

Earliest recorded use :

[QK] on wrapper from Newcastle to Durham, dated 1 May 1844,
cancelled with black numeral (545 Newcastle on Tyne).
First day of numeral cancellations in England and Wales.

 

[AD-CF] block of nine, plate 4 cancelled with
black numerals (545 Newcastle upon Tyne)

[GH] plate 73, on piece cancelled with blue numeral
(545 Newcastle upon Tyne). [cert]

[TI-TJ] plate 98, pair cancelled with two
 blue numerals (545 Newcastle upon Tyne).

[SL] plate 60, cancelled
with black numeral
(545 Newcastle).

[MH MK] two singles, plate 102, from Newcastle upon Tyne to Derby, dated 27 November 1850,
 cancelled with a single black numeral (545 Newcastle upon Tyne)
Contrary to Regulations

[SE-SF] pair, plate 138, cancelled with
 a single black numeral (545 Newcastle upon Tyne)
Contrary to regulations

[GI-GJ] pair, cancelled with
 a single black numeral (545 Newcastle upon Tyne)
Contrary to regulations

546 Newcastle under Lyme

Staffordshire

Earliest recorded use :

[PH] plate 83, cancelled with blue /green numeral (546 Newcastle under Lyme).

[JD] plate 64, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(546 Newcastle under Lyne)

[BJ] plate 160, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(546 Newcastle under Lyme)

547 Stoke on Trent

Staffordshire

Earliest recorded use :

548 Tunstall

Staffordshire

Earliest recorded use :

549 Hanley

Staffordshire

Earliest recorded use :