There are five postboxes within the Harberton village website area: (from east to west).
All collection times are now standardised
as given below.
Location | Latest collection time Monday to Friday | Saturday collection time |
Outside Dundridge | 9.00am | 7.00am |
Outside St Andrew's Church | 9.00am | 7.00am |
Outside 'The Manor' | 9.00am | 7.00am |
Outside 'The Old Forge', Leigh Hill | 9.00am | 7.00am |
Old Hazard | 9.00am | 7.00am |
Later collection times apply at Harbertonford Post Office (4.00pm) and outside Totnes Delivery Office (6.15pm) on the Southern Industrial Estate.
Postboxes bear the monogram of the monarch during whose reign they were installed.
Dundridge (King George V 1910-1936) |
Church (Queen Elizabeth II 1952-) |
The Manor (King Edward VII 1901-1910) |
Leigh Hill (Queen Victoria -1901) |
Old Hazard (Queen Elizabeth II 1952-2022) |
Part of our landscape is the bright red Royal Mail postbox. The first postbox was installed in 1852 in St Peter Port, Guernsey, (or was it Jersey?) by the novelist Anthony Trollope, then a surveyor's clerk. The first mainland box was at Bishops Caundle in Dorset, dated 1853. By 1900 there were 32,593 pillar boxes in the United Kingdom.
All boxes carry the royal insignia and on the accession of a new monarch the old boxes and insignia are retained (except Edward VIII's had their doors replaced with those bearing the cipher of George VI).