West Country

The West Country (Cornish: An Tir West) is a loosely defined area within southwest England,[1] usually taken to include the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Bristol, with some considering it to extend to all or parts of Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Herefordshire.

[2] The West Country has a distinctive regional English dialect and accent,[3] and is also home to the Cornish language.

A government-supported museum, galleries, and major attractions atlas[12] matched the South West Region, save for Gloucestershire.

A former brewery in Cheltenham traded as West Country Ales; their ceramic plaques can still be seen built into pub walls around Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire and parts of Wales.

Bristol and Salisbury form the most northerly and easterly cities on the map respectively, marking the one interpretation of the region at that time.

One interpretation of the West Country, shown on this map as identical to the South West region of England, incorporating the counties of Bristol , Cornwall , Devon , Dorset , Gloucestershire , Somerset and Wiltshire .
A West Country trading ketch, a term widely used by the 18th century