Just for a bit of fun: Here's a route map of the "Bristol" Omnibus Service. But when?

Later - 1940's I would plump for.

Between 1950 and 1957

I think I remember seeing the occasional Bristol Bus in Evesham for a few years after we moved here from the West Country in 1967, but the map has an older look to it than that.  I'll go for 1955 - that was an excellent year.

We lived in Crewkerne in the 1950s and were reliant on both train and bus. The latter in the main getting us to exotic places such as Yeovil, Lyme Regis and Bridport Harbour (West Bay). The train we also used to Lyme and once the Bridport branch. This was a time before we had a car and with my father in the RAF^▸ (Royal Air Force) until 1960 we had no access to a car on a regular basis until then.

The Southern and Western National maps of c1964 show a similar density to Bristol

Presumably by late 1960's many of these villages were down to 4 or 5 journeys a day ? Or did bus companies cross subsidise rural loss making routes with more profitable ones ? Certainly by 1980s some very small places were down to weekly shopper service to nearest town at best