The Somerset Coast ... Watchet to Blue Anchor

Next comes Watchet and Blue Anchor...

 

 

The Somerset Coast ... Brean Down to Burnham-on-Sea

Next we come to Brean Down, and then Burnham (or later Burnham-on-Sea).

 

 

The Somerset Coast ... through Weston-super-Mare

Next we get to Kewstoke, and then Weston-super-Mare.

 

 

 

 

The Somerset Coast ... down to Clevedon

Following on from Portishead, this set of cards depict the coast down to the Green Beach, south of Clevedon.

 

 

 

 

The Somerset Coast ... in Postcards and Postmarks

This and the following few posts illustrate the Somerset Coast in postcards, ideally with the appropriate postmarks too.  Firstly a map ...

 I've started with Avonmouth, not in Somerset, but the postcard is a fine photograph of the docks.

 Then starting in Somerset proper are a couple of cards from Portishead.

Castle Cary postal rate puzzle

I cannot understand the postal rate for the entire shown below.  The entire seems to have gone from Castle Cary to Shaftesbury by the Shaftesbury Fifth Clause Post yet is charged 5d (initial charge was 4d which was then crossed out and replaced by 5d).  The entire is a single sheet and does not appear to have any enclosures.
Why was it charged 5d ?

In contrast the entire here is charged 6d appropriately - 5d for 15-20 miles from Shaftesbury to Sherbourne plus 1d for the Fifth Clause Post (although strictly speaking the sender should have paid for the 5th Clause Post).

Bristol Penny Posts (continued)

Here are the remainder of my very small stock of Bristol Penny Post Receiving Houses.  First Chew Magna with an unboxed "No.17":

Then Wrington with an unboxed "No.25" handstamp:

And finally Langford with a boxed "No.26" and an unboxed handstamp:

 

Bristol Penny Posts (in Somerset)

As mentioned in my earlier post on Bristol, my reason for collecting Bristol material is the Penny Posts that were in Somerset.  I understand that the following Bristol Receiving Houses were in Somerset (corrections gratefully received !):

Receiving House Number	Boxed	Unboxed	Date Range	Assignment
7	1	1	1834 -	Pill
8	1		1815-1818	Bedminster
9	1		1818	Long Ashton
10	4	1	1826-37	Keynsham
11	3		1830-1843	Bedminster
12	1	1	1827-1842	Long Ashton
13	1		1823-1827	Pensford
13	2	2	1827 -	Brislington
14	2		1823-25	Templecloud
14	2		1827 -	Pensford
15	1		1823-1826	Old Down
15	1		1830-1839	Templecloud
16	1		1830-1838	Old Down
17		3	1836-1849	Chew Magna
22	1	2	1825 -	Flax Bourton
23	1	1	1826 -	Nailsea
24	1		1827	Cleeve
24	1	3	1828 -	Clevedon
25	1	5	1827 -	Wrington
26	1	2	1826-1850	Langford
27	1		1833-1836	Churchill
28	1		1826-1828	Weston-super-Mare
28		1	1838-1851	Abbots Leigh
34		2	1835-1840	St Georges
42	2		1829-1837	East Harptree
43	1		1830-1833	Chew Magna
45	1	1	1832 -	West Town
46	2		1830-1837	Walton
47	1?	1	1845 - ?	Tickenham ?
48	1		1829-1830	Oakhill
49	2	1	1835-1848	Cleeve
52		1	1837	Portbury
53	1	1	1830-43	Portishead
61		1	1834	Yatton
62		1	1837-45	Congresbury
64		1	1846	Winford
65		1	?	Ston Easton ?
67		3	1834-38	Lower Clevedon
68		1	1835-47	Easton-in-Gordano
69		1	1840	Stanton Drew

If the above is correct then there are some 40 different Receiving House numbers in the Somerset portion of the Bristol Penny Post, and some 77 different Receiving House handstamps - I'm just starting at this so I've only got 6 !  At least there is plenty of room to progress.

So firstly Keynsham with one example from before the use of Receiving House handstamps, and one with an unboxed "No.10":

 

And an example with a faint unboxed "No.13" from Brislington: