A Penny Post was established at Cross in 1827 after the establishment of a new Mail Coach from Bristol to Bridgwater. Cross was only a tiny place but it was at a point where the new coach road crossed a minor road from Axbridge to Weston-super-Mare.
A number of the receiving houses in the Cross Penny Post are difficult to place, though the first few are quite clear. Axbridge had the boxed "No.1" receiving house handstamp, often used in blue alongside a straight-line "AXBRIDGE" handstamp.
Places often continued to use their Penny Post receiving house handstamp as receiving marks even after the introduction of the uniform penny post and the abolition of Penny Posts.
Weston-super-Mare had the boxed "No.2" receiving house handstamp, ...
... and Banwell had the boxed "No.3" receiving house handstamp.
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