Photographs of Painswick, Gloucestershire - The Post Office
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The Post Office, Painswick

Painswick, The Post Office


The Post Office at Painswick is widely claimed to be the oldest working Post Office in Britain, but apparently this claim is a bit misleading. The building it is housed in dates from 1428, and thus it is probably the oldest known building which also contains a Post Office. It is not known when the Post Office itself first opened its counter, so there are probably other contenders for the title.

(Commentary provided by Rosemary Lockie)
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