TWO community groups have put together a map detailing all the bus routes between Taunton and Wellington.

Taunton Transition Town (TTT) and Transition Town Wellington (TTW) decided to put together the maps as they struggled to find comprehensive information which covers all routes in the surrounding areas of the two towns.

Although Buses of Somerset has timetables, they felt this was a more effective way of bringing the information together.

Mike Ginger, of TTT, said: "The idea for this map came partly from my own experience when I moved to Taunton. I wanted to find out about bus travel from the town but with numerous bus companies, there was no single source of information.

"It was a detective job to work out all the routes. I finally found that there is a surprising range of services which we try to show in the map.

"We hope it will give people ideas for bus trips including visits to the countryside."

Anne Elliott-Day of TTW added: "The fact that people have to search out information online to find out about connecting services is not an incentive to use buses - and we need more people using public transport.

"This map aims to achieve that by promoting the range of services that is available."

The pocket-sized map also has information about longer distance routes such as the Falcon service (Plymouth to Bristol) and Berrys Coaches (Tiverton to London) as well as walks that can be done using local bus routes. T

TTT and TTW added they would like to thank Redhill Farm Apple Juice for financial support towards the cost of producing the map.

The map is free and copies are available at Wellington Library, Wellington Council office and the Blue Pantry as well as Taunton Library, Taunton bus station and Taunton Visitor Centre.