Avon is a (lovely) river

[bish]

Rather rude, jumping straight in without even an introduction (which I will do shortly), but I was... surprised... to see the regional groupings. Whoever constructed them clearly never had the misfortune to live in the old and now utterly abandoned 'Avon'.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avon_(county)

I suppose I am being slightly daft. The river herself is a beautiful if twice named stretch of water, and I have no quarrel with her. To use her name to denote a geographical area however, raises memories of a short-lived council best left to history.

[goosemother41]

Hi Bish i know how you feel but I am still working on a regional map I have had since 1971 its an antique.
The regions are a left over thing from when the PF first started and there was only me as RC Gloucestershire I covered 10 counties including south wales and the Isle of Wight what is the correct term? we use postcodes to denote an area.bb jan hardy

[bish]

oops. just got my Standing Stone and it reminded me to visit here again.

I accept the difficulty of calling everything the south west. Where I am is the English west country - too far up to be south west, but not the midlands! lol. From my window I can almost see the county border between South Gloucestershire and Gloucestershire, at the end of my village.