Help With This 1839 British Stampless Cover

Hi guys
I am no expert on British stamps or covers..Hope I got the information correct...I think it is a STOURBRIDGE cover.

Robert





This map below of Stroubridge is what I think where the letter came from (Te cancel)


Below is where I think the cancel at this post office originated...Am I correct or am I way off center..?,,This is a 1884 map.

Look like Stourbridge to Henley-in-Arden, Feb. 1839 (about 25 miles)
Postage 6d (collect) for 20-30 miles.

A small note on this - 6d in 1839 to mail what was basically a single letter just down the road was a lot. The high postal rates at the time were thrown out with the postal reform of January 1840.

For background -
19th century British postal rates: http://www.victorianweb.org/previct...s/rates.html
1840 postal reform (with note that a penny in 1840 was about a pound of value in 2013 money): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Penny_Post

C.

edited to add: The word in front of the date on the inside (which I can't read in the scan) was either the name of the estate of the writer or the town/locale outside of Stourbridge where the letter was written. It would have been carried or posted at Stourbridge.

I would not use an 1884 map to try to document the PO location in 1839.

The word in front of the date is 'Hagley', a village near Stourbridge.

This thread caught my eye while I'm trying to catch up with things here.

The addressee is at Preston Bagot, 4.7 miles from Henley-in-Arden

https://www.walkingbritain.co.uk/wa...-description

Some info on Thomas Moore here:

http://jennyalogy.blogspot.com/2012...ckshire.html

Hope this helps