Continuing the diversion to Dorset, here are a few items relating to Cranborne in the east of Dorset. Originally a Post Town, Cranborne declined after the road north to Salisbury was not turnpiked, and by 1835 the post office became a sub-office of a post office established at the Woodyates Inn which was on the Blandford - Salisbury turnpike road.
This first item is a free front to Portsmouth endorsed by the Earl of Shaftesbury in 1821, bearing a late use of the "CRANBOURNE / 100" mileage mark.
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