Map of Somerset Penny Posts

The other set of maps I scribbled were the extents of the different Penny Posts across Somerset.  What I've ended up doing is taking the individual Penny Post maps and superimposing them on an image of Greenwood's map of 1821/29 of the Turnpike Roads in Somerset.

The superimposition is not exact and I may have another go at it - one wants the detail in the modern map to find the position of the Receiving Houses etc. but the road network as it was in the 1830s, so it is not straightforward to do.

The other thing that is needed on the map are the main Post Roads.  One should probably also add the Penny Posts from Post Towns outside Somerset that served towns inside Somerset (eg. Tiverton in Devon, Sherborne in Dorset).

It's also a bit of a muddle from a time perspective - not all the Penny Posts ran to their full extents at the same time ... but I found it fairly illuminating on the relationships and boundaries between the Penny Posts.