Great Dunmow (GB)

Dunmow cancel of 1897

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Great Dunmow (Or simply Dunmow) is a historic market town and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. It is situated on the north of the A120 road, approximately midway between Bishop's Stortford and Braintree, 6 miles east of London Stansted Airport.

Originally the site of a Roman settlement on Stane Street, the town thrived during the Middle Ages. Many buildings survive from this period, including a sixteenth-century town hall. Dunmow means "Meadow on the Hill". The settlement was variously referred to as Dunmow Magna, Much Dunmow, or most commonly Great Dunmow. As of 2021, Robert Nicholson is Emeritus Mayor of Great Dunmow.

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1897 Uprated 1d Pink Stationery to 2½d rate from Dunmow to Heilbronn (am Necker). Ipswich Sorting Tender cancelling the 1½d jubilee.

1900 Cover missent from Drummow to St. Ives for delivery to Over. Over had transferred by this time to Cambridge Office. So St. Ives marked it as misdirected to and date stamped it. Struck out the Cambridge and probably sent it by cross post or by rail to Over to avoid it going all the way back tp Cambridge.