Yeovil - More boxed mileage marks

A couple more examples of the Yeovil boxed mileage handstamp, the first with some marginally interesting contents.  It is an Official entire from 1817 that received a Yeovil handstamp because is was missent to Yeovil rather than to Paulton, which before 1841 came under Bath.

The contents are a demand for Tax payable on an Estate.

 The second example is also from 1817.  It was from Yeovil to Weymouth, a distance of about 35 miles.  It was charged 8d, the rate for 50-80 miles presumably because the mail took a more indirect route, either via Sherborne and Blandford Forum (just over 50 miles) or via Poole (just over 60 miles).

Technology makes working out the approximate mileages quite easy;  Google Maps, for example, allows one to get directions from A to B and tells one the distance. One can then correct the route, firstly to avoid motorways (!) and then to go along the probable post routes of the time to get an approximate distance by using modern road routes.