A couple of Somerset I"s starting with an "ILCHESTER" single ring cancel from August 1929, ....
... and a couple of registered envelopes from Ilton under Ilminster in 1947 and 1956.
Moving on to a couple of "K"s, here's a registered envelope from Kingsbury Episcopi in February 1940. The "Episcopi" part of the village's name means "of the Bishop" in Latin. It refers to the fact that the village belonged to the Bishop of Bath and Wells and not the nearby abbey at Muchelney.
The registered envelope below is from Kingston St Mary, near Taunton, sent in June 1922. The first part of the village name comes from the kings settlement having belonged to the kings of the West Saxons before being ceded to the Bishop of Winchester as part of the manor of Taunton Deane, with the church's dedication being added in the 20th century.
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