Woodyates in Dorset

A post office was established at the Woodyates Inn on the Blandford - Salisbury turnpike in 1835, taking the post for Cranborne.  It had a Penny Post serving Thickthorne and Sixpenny Handley.  The item below is from Thickthorne which had the "No.1" receiving house handstamp and has an example of the earlier Woodyates Penny Post handstamp.

Woodyates also had an undated circular handstamp (UDC) as shown in the entire below sent in April 1838.

The envelope below from December 1839 bears the second Woodyates Penny Post handstamp. It was endorsed by Charles Ponsonby who was the MP for Poole and went free in the General Post but had to pay the local penny post.

The prepaid entire below was from "Upwood", a house just north of Sixpenny Handley where it received the No.2" receiving house handstamp.

The unfranked entire below was charged 2d as being sent unpaid and received a Woodyates dated double-arc handstamp in 1842.  The Woodyates Post Office was closed before April 1845.