At that time there were only three Receiving Houses in the Taunton Penny Post - Gore Inn (Bishop's Lydeard), Monksilver and Torre. There was also Dunster which was still in the Taunton Fifth Clause Post. Combe Sydenham is two miles south of Monksilver so is very likely to have been posted there (and then received the "TAUNTON / Penny Post" handstamp on receipt in Taunton). There is no receiving house handstamp on the entire - examples of the boxed "No.2" receiving house handstamp are extremely rare, the only ones I have found so far are from 1818/1819 when it was still in the Fifth Clause Post.
The second item from 1845 has a "Watchet / Penny Post" handstamp as well as a dated Taunton Penny Post one. Watchet's receiving house was established in 1839.
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