Great Britain - The Imperforate Issues (1840-1853)

Numeral Cancellations of English Provincial Towns (Numbers 750 to 799)

750 Stourbridge

Worcestershire

Earliest recorded use :

[GC-GD] plate 41, pair, cancelled with
black numerals (750 Stourbridge)

[LL] plate 51, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(750 Stourbridge)

[NJ] plate 41, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(750 Stourbridge)

[OG] plate 153, cancelled with
 a red Stourbridge datestamp
(April 185?) [e]

751 Stourport

Wocestershire

Earliest recorded use :

[AF-AI] plate 60, strip of four, cancelled with
four black numerals (751 Stourport).

[EK] plate 44, cancelled with black numeral (751 Stourport).

[BG] cancelled with
 a black numeral
(751 Stourport)

[LI-LJ] pair, plate 75, cancelled with
black numerals (751 Stourport)

752 Stowmarket

Suffolk

Earliest recorded use :

[HA] plate 88, cancelled
with black numeral
(752 Stowmarket).

[KJ] plate 4, cancelled
with a black numeral
(752 Stowmarket).

[D?] cancelled with
 a black numeral
(752 Stowmarket)

753 Needham Market

Suffolk

Earliest recorded use :

[ND] cancelled with
 a black numeral
(753 Needham Market)

754 Stratford on Avon

Warwickshire

Earliest recorded use :

[KK] plate 89, cancelled with black numeral (754 Stratford on Avon).

[TL] plate 53, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(754 Stratford on Avon)

[SB] plate 58, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(754 Stratford on Avon)

[HF] plate 109, cancelled with
 a yellow Stratford on Avon datestamp
(4 December 1850) [e]

[CE-DH] block of seven, plate 126,
cancelled with black numerals (754 Stratford).
 

[QC-QF] strip of four, plate 4, cancelled with
 black numerals (754 Stratford on Avon)

755 Alcester

Warwickshire

Earliest recorded use :

[RK] cancelled with
 a black numeral
(755 Alcester)

756 Henley in Arden

Warwickshire

Earliest recorded use :

757 Stroud

Gloucestershire

Earliest recorded use :

[BH-BI] pair, plate 4, cancelled
with black numerals
(757 Stroud).
Violet-blue shade; BH without spectacle

[JH] plate 40, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(757 Stroud)

[IL] cancelled with
 a black numeral
(757 Stroud)

[OL] plate 76, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(757 Stroud)

758 Kingscote

Gloucestershire

Earliest recorded use :

759 Uley

Gloucestershire

Earliest recorded use :

[FF] plate 42, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(759 Uley)

760 Sudbury

Suffolk

Earliest recorded use :

[ME] plate 114, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(760 Sudbury)

[QK] cancelled with
 a black numeral
(760 Sudbury)

761 Sunderland

Durham

Earliest recorded use :

[TJ] plate 4, cancelled with black numeral
(761 Sunderland).

[KG] plate 3, cancelled
with black numeral
(761 Sunderland).

[SB] plate 52, from Sunderland to Carlisle dated 9 April 1845,
cancelled with black 761 numeral of Sunderland.
 

[KK] plate 30, on entire from Monkwearmouth to London
 dated 30 August 1843, cancelled
with a black maltese cross and
bearing a Monk Wearmouth Penny Post cancel.
 

[RK] on entire to from Monkwearmouth to Berwick dated 19 March 1844,
cancelled with a black maltese cross
 

762 Swaffham

Norfolk

Earliest recorded use :

[RF] plate 42, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(762 Swaffham)

766 Swindon

Wiltshire

Earliest recorded use :

767 Cricklade

Wiltshire

Earliest recorded use :

[HI] plate 170, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(767 Cricklade)

[FG] plate 72, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(767 Cricklade)

[EI] plate 76, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(767 Cricklade)

768 Wootton Bassett

Wiltshire

Earliest recorded use :

769 Wroughton

Wiltshire

Earliest recorded use :

770 Stanmore

Middlesex

Earliest recorded use :

771 Shooters Hill

Kent

Earliest recorded use :

772 Tadcaster

Yorkshire

Earliest recorded use :

[AI-AL] plate 4 strip of four from Thorp Arch to New Zealand dated 30 July 1850,
cancelled with four black 772 numerals of Tadcaster.
per Ship “Sir Edward Pagett”, London Ship Letter datestamp (31 July 1850).
Wellington, New Zealand arrival datestamp of 27 December 1850.
 

[SB] cancelled with black Tadcaster maltese cross.

[ME] cancelled with
 a black numeral
(772 Tadcaster)

774 Tamworth

Staffordshire

Earliest recorded use :

[?G] cancelled with
 a black numeral
(774 Tamworth)

775 Tarporley

Cheshire

Earliest recorded use :

[BK] cancelled with black numeral (775 Tarporley).

[AF] plate 85, cancelled with black numeral (775 Tarporley).

776 Taunton

Somerset

Earliest recorded use :

[AD] plate 3, on entire from Taunton to Wells dated 30 April 1844,
cancelled by a black Taunton maltese cross. 
Last day of use of the maltese cross in England and Wales.
 

[QK] on entire from Taunton to Wellington, dated 1 May 1844,
cancelled by black 776 numeral (Taunton).
First day of numeral cancellations in England and Wales.
 

[TD] cancelled with black numeral (776 Taunton).

[BC] on dated piece from Taunton to Dulverton dated 9 May 1844
cancelled  by a black numeral (776 Taunton).
 

[CK] from Taunton to Langport dated 30 April 1844,
cancelled with a black Maltese Cross
Last day of maltese cross cancellations for provincial English Towns..
 

[GE] plate 33, from Taunton to Langport, dated 17 April 1844,
cancelled with a black Maltese cross

777 Williton

Somerset

Earliest recorded use :

[MG] on entire from Williton to Molton dated 16 June 1852,
cancelled with a blue 777 numeral of Williton.
 

[PG-PH] pair, plate 3, cancelled with
black numeral (777 Williton).

778 Dunster

Somerset

Earliest recorded use :

779 Minehead

Somerset

Earliest recorded use :

780 Tavistock

Devon

Earliest recorded use :

[DA] plate 4, cancelled with black numeral (780 Tavistock)

[QF] plate 98, cancelled with blue numeral (780 Tavistock).

[FL] plate 96, cancelled with blue numeral (780 Tavistock).

[PH] plate 3, cancelled with black numeral (780 Tavistock).

[HG] plate 36, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(780 Tavistock)

781 Callington

Cornwall

Earliest recorded use :

[SC] plate 69, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(781 Callington)

782 Teignmouth

Devon

Earliest recorded use :

[BD] cancelled with
 a black numeral
(782 Teignmouth)

[AE] plate 41, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(782 Teignmouth)

783 Tenbury

Worcestershire

Earliest recorded use :

[PC] plate 69, cancelled with black numeral (783 Tenbury).

[CD] plate 87, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(783 Tenbury)

785 Tenterden

Kent

Earliest recorded use :

[NA] cancelled with black numeral (785 Tenterden).

[OC] plate 60, cancelled
with a black numeral
(785 Tenterden).

[RL] plate 78, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(785 Tenterden)

[HF] plate 118, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(785 Tenterden)

786 Tetbury

Gloucestershire

Earliest recorded use :

[NJ] cancelled with
 a black numeral
(786 Tetbury)

787 Tetsworth

Oxfordshire

Earliest recorded use :

[HD] plate 91, cancelled with black numeral (787 Tetsworth).

[CK] plate 138, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(787 Tetsworth)

[PH] plate 98, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(787 Tetsworth)

788 Tewkesbury

Gloucestershire

Earliest recorded use :

[ED] cancelled with black numeral (788 Tewkesbury).

[PI-PJ] pair, plate 4, cancelled with
black numerals (788 Tewkesbury).

[FC] plate 106, cancelled
with black numeral
(788 Tewkesbury).

[LI] plate 63, cancelled
with black numeral
(788 Tewkesbury).

[MA-MB] pair, plate 4 on thin paper , cancelled
with black numerals (788 Tewkesbury).

[QG] plate 84, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(788 Tewkesbury)

[CD] plate 123, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(788 Tewkesbury)

[MD] plate 66, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(788 Tewkesbury)

[LF-LG] pair, plate 4, cancelled with
black numerals (788 Tewkesbury)

789 Thame

Oxfordshire

Earliest recorded use :

[OA-OB] pair, cancelled
contrary to regulations
 with single black numeral (789 Thame).

[CJ] plate 35, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(789 Thame)

790 Thetford

Norfolk

Earliest recorded use :

[KC-KF] strip of four, plate 4, cancelled with
 black numerals (790 Thetford)

[?B] cancelled with
 a black numeral
(790 Thetford)

791 Harling

Norfolk

Earliest recorded use :

[TG-TJ] plate 34, strip of 4, cancelled with black numeral (791 Harling)

[CH] plate 137, cancelled
with blue numeral
(791 Harling).

792 Larlingford

Norfolk

Earliest recorded use :

[RK] on entire from Larlingfold to London dated 11 June 1852,
cancelled with a blue 792 numeral of Larlingfold.
 

793 Shipdham

Norfolk

Earliest recorded use :

[DJ] plate 80, cancelled
with a black numeral
(793 Shipdham).

794 Watton

Norfolk

Earliest recorded use :

[TA] plate 85, cancelled
with a blue numeral
(794 Watton).

[FH] cancelled with
 a blue numeral
(794 Watton)

[TJ] plate 39, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(794 Watton)

[BJ] plate 132, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(794 Watton)

795 Thirsk

Yorkshire

Earliest recorded use :

[MH-OL] plate 76, block of fifteen,
cancelled with black numerals (795 Thirsk).
 

[AC-AD] plate 4 (before repair) pair,
cancelled with black numerals (795 Thirsk).

[MI] plate 90, cancelled with black numeral (795 Thirsk).

[AA] plate 101, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(795 Thirsk)

[DK] plate 45, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(795 Thirsk)

796 Osmotherley

Yorkshire

Earliest recorded use :

[EG] cancelled with
 a black numeral
(796 Osmotherley)

797 Thorne

Yorkshire

Earliest recorded use :

[LA] plate 61, cancelled with black numeral (797 Thorne).

[HB] cancelled with
 a black numeral
(797 Thorne)

798 Thrapstone

Northamptonshire

Earliest recorded use :

799 Tipton

Staffordshire

Earliest recorded use :

[HF] plate 62, cancelled with
 a black numeral
(799 Tipton)