1862 Wreck Cover Tenterfield NSW To London On P&o Colombo

This came from an auction lot of ephemera last Saturday, mis-labelled as a letter about a wreck, not a wreck letter.

P&O Colombo sank off Ceylon 19 November 1862. All on board were rescued. P&O used divers to recover the boxes of mail. According to Dr Andrew Cheung (Hong Kong Philatelic Society) the stamps were washed off the majority of mails. The "saved" cachet was applied in London.

The cover's an entire. The missive's from a man, name at the moment unreadable, to his uncle Robert (Mawes?). Haven't worked out yet whether he's farming or prospecting.

Address is London Hele Farm Old Brouford Njidderley England.

London post office suggested trying Turnham Green, which at the time had a population of around 2,500.

The small cancel that looks like a Bishop mark I presume is a London mark of some sort?

The small mark at top front with the four letters is for missorted letters.

Must "London Hele Farm" be in London? Might that not be the reason it was missorted for London.

Could Brouford be Bromford, near Birmingham? Before WWII, the Bromford area was farmland. "Old Bromford" might have been an incomplete address that should have added street, lane, or something similar. There are both a Bromford Lane and Old Bromford Lane in the area.

Thanks NSK! The upside-down word near the Tenterfield cancel appears to be "Walker", in the same hand as the Turnham Green note.

Could the town name be Old Bradford?

Regards
Frank

The word you read as Njidderley is Middlesex. I think the word before it may be Brentford with the t left out.

I can't read the word between London and Farm, but I think it begins with St, not H.

Edit: It's London Stile Farm, which was near Kew Bridge. So the letter was correctly addressed!

An old Ordnance Survey map of Old Brentford might help.