Post office · North Western Provinces
GurrnooktessorePostal Covers & Pre-1854 Postal History
Garhmukteshwar (the Gurrnooktessore of early records) is a town on the Ganges in Hapur district, Uttar Pradesh, an ancient bathing and pilgrimage place famed for its riverside fair on the upper Ganges. It lay on the routes east of Meerut. Within the North-Western Provinces it served as a post town, and its pre-1854 markings trace the mail of the upper Ganges.
No handstamp from Gurrnooktessore has been recorded yet.
Gurrnooktessore is a known post office of the North Western Provinces, but no pre-1854 strike has been catalogued in Giles. This is exactly what the census is here to change — if you hold a cover or strike from Gurrnooktessore, your submission (once reviewed) becomes a recorded entry below.
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Other post offices in the North Western Provinces
Explore the pre-1854 postal history of other North Western Provinces post offices — each page lists its recorded handstruck markings, dates and surviving covers.