Being devils advocate, define South West!
It means totally different things to different people.
TV defines as Bristol down.
Government means Gloucester down (?), guessing, no proof.
To me, SouthWest is Cornwall and Devon.
From
our web site home page, here's the map of the area we cover:
From
WikiPedia confirming the government's definition as used in so many of the official stats that get quoted:
South West England, or the South West of England, is one of the nine official regions of England in the United Kingdom. It consists of the counties of Cornwall (including the Isles of Scilly), Dorset, Devon, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire.
The region includes the West Country and much of the ancient kingdom of Wessex.
This Goverment region is the regions used by TravelWatch SouthWest too and many other bodies that naturally work withing political zones. I think it's the old European Parlimentary Consituency too - though that include Gibraltar too.
For the purposes of this survey, I'm not sure how much difference the exact boundary makes - though perhaps the Thames Valley (escpecially inward from Reading) and the Welsh bits that
GWR▸ serve are out of scope of the question.
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