Where does the south west end ?

[Termite Man]

Are you moving?

Yes I will be working in Poole if things go to plan

 

[cesare]

The South West ends at the Tamar.

 

[cesare]

The South is a long thin triangle incorporating Portsmouth, Soton, IOW and all of Hampshire at the widest end.

South East starts next to that. Sussex across and including Essex.

East is above Essex but just short of Yorkshire.

 

[Looby]

Yes I will be working in Poole if things go to plan

Bloody hell, I live in Poole. Good luck with the move.

 

[geekpenguin]

I reckon the boundary would come just past Swindon IMO. It's stupid how the government/NHS defines the divide for South West/East - my mom works for the Wiltshire PCT and it's like right next to Hampshire...bit of a no-man's land county-wise. Maybe Salisbury plain is the equivalent of a "demiliterized zone" of the west/east divide.

I asked this question a few weeks ago when I was watching the Great British Menu. The dude that won from the South West (sorry, I forget his name) was from Jersey?!?! How on earth does that count as South West? It's not even connected to the country. That's practically France! Surely it's South at least, not South West?

 

[Termite Man]

Bloody hell, I live in Poole. Good luck with the move.

I know that . We will be about 30 minutes on the train from you .

 

[skyscraper101]

It pretty much ends where Wiltshire meets Berkshire.

I say the area around Hungerford is the dividing line which is where Berkshire starts.

The Thameslink commuter trains from London terminate at Bedwyn which is near enough the dividing line too. The next station is Pewsey and that is definitely the South West.

 

[Bakunin]

It pretty much ends where Wiltshire meets Berkshire.

I say the area around Hungerford is the dividing line which is where Berkshire starts.

The Thameslink commuter trains from London terminate at Bedwyn which is near enough the dividing line too. The next station is Pewsey and that is definitely the South West.

Pewsey?

PEWSEY?!

I think you'll find, good Sir, that any PROPER Southwestern folk would be absolutely scandalised if you said that the South West began at Pewsey.

Nay, Sir, the South West begins at Bristol, and then only at a stretch.

Pewsey, indeed.

 

[skyscraper101]

Pewsey?

PEWSEY?!

I think you'll find, good Sir, that any PROPER Southwestern folk would be absolutely scandalised if you said that the South West began at Pewsey.

Nay, Sir, the South West begins at Bristol, and then only at a stretch.

Pewsey, indeed.

I grew up in Pewsey and it is most definitely not South East. So if it isn't South West then I dont know where you'd put the dividing line.

Have you heard the accent? It's not a million miles away from a Bristolian accent.

 

[Bakunin]

I grew up in Pewsey and it is most definitely not South East. So if it isn't South West then I dont know where you'd put the dividing line.

Have you heard the accent? It's not a million miles away from a Bristolian accent.

'Tis South.

SOUTH, I SAY!

'Tis certainly NOT South West, my good man.

 

[skyscraper101]

'Tis South.

SOUTH, I SAY!

'Tis certainly NOT South West, my good man.

The South without regional sub section, begins at Salisbury and extends down to Southampton it neatly sits just below the South East, South West divide.

To use another test, you could do by regional TV. In Pewsey we used to get HTV. But any further east you'd get Meridian. In Reading you could get Meridian and Carlton.

It's a trusted method of knowing where you are in the East/West divide