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	For nearly a thousand years Bristol has been an important trading centre and seaport, with much of the city centre being rebuilt after heavy bombing during the Second World War.
	A long-standing retreat for holiday makers, Cornwall has some beautiful and dramatic scenery, from hilly moorland to sandy seaside bays.
	Including several Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Devon features Dartmoor and Exmoor National Parks and many interesting towns and picturesque villages.
	Rich in prehistoric remains, Dorset is a largely agricultural county, with low-lying heathlands in the east and the Dorset Downs in the north and south.
	The historic county of Somerset lies in a basin, undulating and wooded, the county is surrounded by hills on three sides that feature many limestone gorges and caves.
	Wiltshire is an agricultural county with a terrain of rolling open countryside and downs, famed for its prehistoric settlements, in particular the neolithic Avebury and Stonehenge.