West Country
The West Country is an unofficial, but popular, name for the South West of England. If you think you know southern England, but haven't ventured beyond the South East, the West Country will be a revelation.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Bristol and Stonehenge.
Bristol
Bristol is a city in the West Country of England. Famous for its maritime history it also offers a great and diverse range of attractions, hotels, bars and events.Stonehenge
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Stonehenge is a Neolithic and Bronze Age stone monument in a UNESCO World Heritage Site on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. The WHS is quite large and contains many other structures from the Neolithic and Bronze Ages.
Bath
Bath is a historic Roman and Georgian spa city. It is famous for its hot springs, Roman period baths, Medieval heritage and stately Georgian architecture.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Devon and Cornwall.
Devon
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Devon is a large county in England's West Country. Uniquely amongst English counties, Devon has two coastlines: to the south, on the English Channel and to the north, on the Celtic Sea and Bristol Channel.
Cornwall
Cornwall is a county in the southwest of England. Lying west of Devon from which it is separated by the River Tamar, Cornwall is one of the more isolated and distinctive parts of the United Kingdom but is also one of its most popular with holidaymakers.
Somerset
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Somerset is a predominantly rural county in the West Country in England. The county is home to the Glastonbury Festival, one of the UK's major music festivals.
Wiltshire
Wiltshire is a large, mostly rural county in the eastern part of the West Country of southern England. Wiltshire features large areas of rolling chalk downland and grazing farmland, including Salisbury Plain, a large expanse of downland of which part is famously used as a training area by the British Army.
Dorset
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Dorset is a county on the south coast of England, in the West Country. Most of the county is agricultural with scattered historic villages and market towns with the Bournemouth-Poole-Christchurch conurbation in the county's south-eastern corner.
Gloucestershire
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Gloucestershire is a county in south-west England. It comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean.
Isles of Scilly
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The Isles of Scilly is a small archipelago of islands in the Atlantic Ocean, 25 miles off the coast of Cornwall at the south-western tip of the United Kingdom.
West Country
- Type: Region with 5,520,000 residents
- Description: one of nine official regions of England, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “South West”, “South West England”, and “South West of England”
- Neighbors: South East England and West Midlands
- Categories: region of England and ITL 1 statistical regions of England
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“West Country” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جنوب غرب إنجلترا”
- Aragonese: “Sud-ueste d’Anglaterra”
- Aragonese: “Sudueste d’Anglaterra”
- Armenian: “Հարավարևմտյան Անգլիա”
- Asturian: “Suroeste d’Inglaterra”
- Azerbaijani: “Cənub-Qərbi İngiltərə”
- Basque: “Hego-mendebaldeko Ingalaterra”
- Belarusian: “Паўднёва-Заходняя Ангельшчына”
- Belarusian: “Паўднёва-Заходняя Англія”
- Bengali: “দক্ষিণ পশ্চিম ইংল্যান্ড”
- Breton: “Mervent Bro-Saoz”
- Bulgarian: “Югозападна Англия”
- Catalan: “Sud-oest d’Anglaterra”
- Central Kurdish: “باشووری ڕۆژاوای ئینگلتەرا”
- Chinese: “Se-lâm Eng-lân”
- Chinese: “西南英格兰”
- Chinese: “西南英格蘭”
- Cornish: “Rannvro Soth West”
- Corsican: “Suduveste di l’Inghilterra”
- Croatian: “Jugozapadna Engleska”
- Croatian: “South West England”
- Czech: “Jihozápadní Anglie”
- Danish: “South West England”
- Dutch: “South West England”
- Dutch: “West Country”
- Dutch: “Zuidwest-Engeland”
- Esperanto: “Sud-okcidenta Anglio”
- Estonian: “Edela-Inglismaa”
- Finnish: “Lounais-Englanti”
- French: “Angleterre du Sud-Ouest”
- French: “Sud-Ouest de l’Angleterre”
- Galician: “Suroeste de Inglaterra”
- German: “South West England”
- German: “Südwestengland”
- Greek: “Νοτιοδυτική Αγγλία”
- Hakka Chinese: “Sî-nàm England”
- Hakka Chinese: “Sî-nàm Yîn-kak-làn”
- Hebrew: “דרום-מערב אנגליה”
- Hungarian: “South West England”
- Icelandic: “Suðvestur-England”
- Indonesian: “Inggris Barat Daya”
- Indonesian: “South West England”
- Irish: “Iardheisceart Shasana”
- Italian: “Sud Ovest dell’Inghilterra”
- Italian: “Sud Ovest”
- Japanese: “サウス・ウェスト・イングランド”
- Japanese: “南西イングランド”
- Korean: “사우스웨스트잉글랜드”
- Kurdish: “Înglistana Başûr-Rojava”
- Latvian: “Dienvidrietumanglija”
- Lithuanian: “Pietvakarių Anglija”
- Macedonian: “Југозападна Англија”
- Maltese: “Lbiċ tal-Ingilterra”
- Marathi: “नैऋत्य इंग्लंड”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Se-lâm Eng-lân”
- Mirandese: “Sudoeste de la Anglaterra”
- Northern Frisian: “Süüd Waast Ingelun”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sørvest-England”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sørvest-England”
- Norwegian: “Sørvest-England”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Anglatèrra del sud-oèst”
- Persian: “جنوب غربی انگلستان”
- Polish: “Południowo-zachodnia Anglia”
- Polish: “South West England”
- Portuguese: “South West England”
- Portuguese: “Sudoeste da Inglaterra”
- Quechua: “Urin kunti Inlatirra suyu”
- Romanian: “South West England”
- Russian: “Юго-Западная Англия”
- Scots: “Sooth Wast Ingland”
- Scots: “Sooth Wast o Ingland”
- Serbian: “Југозападна Енглеска”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Jugozapadna Engleska”
- Slovak: “South West England”
- Slovenian: “Jugozahodna Anglija”
- Spanish: “Región del Sudoeste de Inglaterra”
- Spanish: “Sudoeste de Inglaterra”
- Swahili: “Uingereza Kusini-Magharibi”
- Swedish: “Sydvästra England”
- Swedish: “West Country”
- Tajik: “Англияи Ҷанубу Ғарбӣ”
- Tatar: “Көньяк-Көнбатыш Англия”
- Thai: “เซาท์เวสต์อิงแลนด์”
- Turkish: “Güney Batı İngiltere”
- Ukrainian: “Південно-Західна Англія”
- Urdu: “جنوب مغربی انگلستان”
- Vietnamese: “South West England”
- Vietnamese: “Tây Nam Anh”
- Vlaams: “South West England”
- Welsh: “De-orllewin Lloegr”
- Western Frisian: “Súdwest-Ingelân”
- Wu Chinese: “西南英格兰”
- Yiddish: “דרום-מערב ענגלאנד”
- Yue Chinese: “西南英倫”
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