Talk:South West England

message: It was originally divided into just Avon, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset, and Wiltshire. 
I have changed this to It was previously divided...  Avon was never an historic county, and only came into being in 1974.--MichaelMaggs 08:50, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: All versions are correct. The current region was formed in 1994 so it came after Avon was created and before it was abolished. MRSC 18:34, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Avon

message: The article on Gibraltar lists that area as part of the EU voting constituency of South West England. Could someone who is more knowledgeable on the subjesct please clear this up for me? - USArsnl 03:08, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The link was wrong on the Gibraltar article. It should have linked to the constituency and not the region. I've corrected this. MRSC 13:18, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Gibraltar

message: While I think the article name should remain South West England (because that's what most people will think of it as), the emboldened part of the opening paragraph should read ‘South West (or Government Office for the South West) is one of the regions of England . . . ’ since the word England does not form part of its title. The only region of England which includes the word is East of England. If no-one objects, I'd like to change this (and also the other region of England articles). - Heavens To Betsy 13:48, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Name

message: This section is fatuous and way too early in the article. Some of it belongs in a trivia section.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.140.57.113 (talk) 11:09, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree (with me). The southwest surely has deeper and more serious associations with navigation from Bristol, mining in Cornwall, agriculture and tourism.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.189.103.145 (talk) 08:41, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Traditionally

message: The sections on each county seem very brief in some cases: just listing large employers does not really tell you much about the economy.--Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 07:41, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. The Early Learning Centre (a business whose name sounds like a school) is hardly a typically southwestern trade. I'm sure they have Tesco's down there too, but saying so isn't encyclopedic.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.189.103.145 (talk) 23:30, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: County sections

message: As part of the transport planning system the Regional Assembly is under statutory requirement to produce a Regional Transport Strategy to provide long term planning for transport in the region. This involves region wide transport schemes such as those carried out by the Highways Agency and Network Rail. [12] - now out of date, regional assemblies in England no longer exist (as of now (2011)) Govynn (talk) 19:49, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: That's true.  I've removed it.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 20:37, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Transport

message: What evidence is there that Exeter acted as a "regional capital" of a region coextensive with the modern south west region? Govynn (talk) 20:08, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I've changed "the" regional capital to "a" regional capital, which was true in Roman times - it doesn't necessarily imply that the region of which it was capital was the same as the modern South West.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 20:56, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: The question has come up at Talk:West Country of the need for a better map of the region - showing some administrative boundaries, some towns, etc.  As the term "West Country" cannot be satisfactorily defined, it seems to me that a map of the SW region would be preferable.  Any views on this?  Ghmyrtle (talk) 11:48, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map? 

message: WIkipedia is not a directory, yet with this edit that is exactly what this article has become a - a Yellow Pages for South West England. I'll give it a couple of days and if nobody beats me to it then I'll revert and trim a few more out. --Bob Re-born (talk) 18:33, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It's probably all true, noteworthy (somewhere), and quite interesting - but almost entirely unsourced.  Several possibilities occur to me.  If sources are found, there's no reason in my view not to have a new page on Economy of South West England; or, maybe better, to transfer sourced information (or tagged unsourced information) to the individual county pages.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 18:39, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: We already have Economy of Somerset, Economy of Devon, Economy of Cornwall etc some of which are better than others - perhaps they could be expanded/sourced etc?— Rod talk 20:02, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Good idea - and someone can start Economy of Wiltshire, Economy of Dorset, Economy of Gloucestershire, etc...  We already have Economy of Bristol as well.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 16:24, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Directory of businesses 

message: Just noticed Zedland redirects here, but there's nothing relating to the name on the page. Googling I see a few sites claim Zedland is an old term for the West Counties (Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset) in South West England. It was called this because of the inhabitants pronunciation of S as Z. and another site that claims Zedland was old slang for the West Country (the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and Dorset). 
But don't appear themselves to be WP:RS. If this is true, and can be reliably sourced then perhaps it would be a suitable addition to the article, or at least some explanation of the term. Especially given the redirect exists.Number36 (talk) 20:30, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that there seems to be some truth in it, as an antiquated slang term - for example, here and here.  A brief mention might be justified.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 22:40, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zedland 

message: Hi, I’m Andrew Clark and I work at the Office for National Statistics in the UK.
We publish lots of infographics and I wonder if this one on South West of England (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Regional_profile_of_the_South_West.png) would be of interest for South_West_England
FYI, the full gallery, updated weekly, is here <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Content_created_by_the_Office_for_National_Statistics>
All the best
Andrew Clark (smanders1982)
10 Dec 2013
Smanders1982 (talk) 13:33, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: This is an interesting graphic - however I do wonder about the selection of comparators ie West Midlands & London for Median Age while North West is used for Life Expectancy & North East for unemployment. I also wonder if it complies with policies (vaguely remembered) about not including logos of the organisations which have produced the graphic - but can't find this at present.— Rod talk 18:51, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infographic? 

message: Per this edit - later reverted - the region in fact does contain a small part of the New Forest national park, around Hamptworth in Wiltshire.  It would probably give it undue weight to mention this in the lead (the region only fully contains two National Parks, Dartmoor and Exmoor), but it should probably be mentioned somewhere in the text.  I'm not sure where - does anyone have any thoughts?  Ghmyrtle (talk) 07:38, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Forest 

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thread_title:  The West Country Challenge 

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message: An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirects :West England and :Western England and has thus listed them for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 June 2#West England until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Jay (talk) 20:53, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
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message: There is currently a discussion at Talk:Regions of England regarding the official name of the region, as I believe that it is actually "South West", not "South West England". The thread is Talk:Regions of England § Some of the region article titles are wrong.. Thank you. Theknightwho (talk) 04:57, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Official region name is wrong - should be "South West"