Yokels unite

itboffin

Okay okay now just how many of YOU are there from the West County, come on people you know who you are, own up MTFU and come OUT I know your all lurking somewhere in the forum.

+1 for me, my wife is a local Wiltshire lass and I'm a London boy born 'n bred but loving the beautiful west, even more now I know my local commuting and training runs are in fact the hills of "Highclere" castle :shock:

gtvlusso

Brizzle - proper job...

peejay78

i'm in brizzle too. i commute from easton to churchill most days, unless it's persisting down, in which case i get the train to yatton then cycle from there.

dafruk

I can't read,
and I can write,
but it don't really matter...

Sure you all know the rest. I'm not a hick but my girlfriend is from the Bath/Bristol region.

yensid

Devon born,
and Devon bred,
Strong of arm,
and thick of head!

Now in Trowbridge and commute to Bath, so still West Country.
(My parents, farming folk, even leave Devon occasionally to visit us)

always_tyred

itboffin wrote:

Okay okay now just how many of YOU are there from the West County, come on people you know who you are, own up MTFU and come OUT I know your all lurking somewhere in the forum.

+1 for me, my wife is a local Wiltshire lass and I'm a London boy born 'n bred but loving the beautiful west, even more now I know my local commuting and training runs are in fact the hills of "Highclere" castle :shock:

Youm not from roundere.

Bagman

brought up in Cheltenham. We always thought we were West Country folk. No doubt the Devonians will think we are northeners

lost_in_thought

Born in Truro, lived in Penzance until I was 5, then moved on to more easterly areas...

Clever Pun

Born and bred Okehampton boy

Surf-Matt

Been living in Cornwall since I was 14 (Surrey before that).
Wife goes back many generations in Cornwall but born in Plymouth (nearest hospital to Boscastle at the time) - but our 4 week old boy (and dog) is the only one actually born in the county!

Absolutely love it down here!

don_don

I guess Cheltenham counts as the West Country?

And my wife is from Devon.

oops...

Greg T

I lived in Warminster for a year - does that count?

itboffin

don_don wrote:

I guess Cheltenham counts as the West Country?

And my wife is from Devon.

oops...

If by wife your referring to the woman you have locked in the basement, now you know that doesn't count, just kidding, tee hee

risi

Hello all. Been lurking here for a while, but decided to own up to my west country roots...

Born and bred - I live in Wrington, near Bristol Airport and grew up in Cleeve, ooh about 2 miles away. Amazingly I do have 2 eyes etc. I ride to work 2-3 days a week - 13 miles into Brislington where I play with computers making them control spacecraft.

SpinyUK

Glaaaster yere, but now live just over the border in foreign parts (Wiltshire)

attica

Yarp

By My reckonin, I'm about 5 mile from Risi as the cow (sic) flies.

yarp

Jay dubbleU

Born and bred in North Yorks - but now alas in Swindon :oops:

daniel_b

Not sure if Newbury is West Country (?) but this hick town is where I live.

Born in Norwich (a fine city) then moved to Staines, then Wem-ber-ley, then Luton (first house), and now here.

This is my fave place so far - that's lucky eh!

Dan

risi

Attica wrote:

Yarp

By My reckonin, I'm about 5 mile from Risi as the cow (sic) flies.

yarp

Ah, but Yatton is over yon big hill. There be dragons that way (and curry).

greg66_tri_v2.0

Pleased to say that I've never lived further west than the east side of SW18. Phew.

Mrs. G66 is from Newbury. Her sister still lives there. When the family come to visit, it's like the Clampetts coming to stay. :shock:

daniel_b

Greg66 wrote:

Mrs. G66 is from Newbury. Her sister still lives there. When the family come to visit, it's like the Clampetts coming to stay. :shock:

Ah yes, there are some areas of populace that are a little bit backwards shall we say, but that's all part of the places charm...

On a bigger plus side, people are generally more friendly, and have more time for you in most walks of life.

Swings and roundabouts.

Dan

matt581

Im from Bristol way born and bred, I live out in Backwell.

risi

What part of Cleeve are you from? I used to live down Bishops Mead.

Matt

risi

matt581 wrote:

Im from Bristol way born and bred, I live out in Backwell.

risi

What part of Cleeve are you from? I used to live down Bishops Mead.

Matt

Graitney Close first, then up in the world to Cleeve Drive. This was a looong time ago though - left there when I went to university back in 1989.

attica

risi wrote:

Ah, but Yatton is over yon big hill. There be dragons that way (and curry).

An gurt fun it is too, riding over yon hill. I comes past ee most weekends headin for Burrington or Cheddar an then onto they there Mendips to play.
I comes up over by Goblin Combe, that near you?

Matt581 wrote:

I live out in Backwell.

Ere, I comes past ee too, on my commute.
Lately I've taken to heading up through Churchtown on my way home from Brizzle as the road surface on the main road shakes my blimmin eyeballs about.

GregT wrote:

Aww look, ickle Attica has found some friends to go play with, how cute

Thought I'd say it for you GT, you urbane thing you

NGale

Clever Pun wrote:

Born and bred Okehampton boy

wey hey! I lived in Okehampton up until May of this year, back in Exeter now (Exeter born and raised) still go to Okie each week for St John Ambulance training and served on the town council for a while.

Anyway, down here we are not strictly West Country, we are in the South West. Bristol and that area is the Westcountry.

risi

Attica wrote:

risi wrote:

Ah, but Yatton is over yon big hill. There be dragons that way (and curry).

An gurt fun it is too, riding over yon hill. I comes past ee most weekends headin for Burrington or Cheddar an then onto they there Mendips to play.
I comes up over by Goblin Combe, that near you?

You're about 50m from my house at the bottom of the hill, the flying cow would tell you.

Attica wrote:

Matt581 wrote:

I live out in Backwell.

Ere, I comes past ee too, on my commute.
Lately I've taken to heading up through Churchtown on my way home from Brizzle as the road surface on the main road shakes my blimmin eyeballs about.

I come through Backwell too on days when I don't fancy the Col d'Barrow Tanks (it don't half go on - to me anyway, I'm fairly new to this game). Have to check all the bits are still on the bike.

Attica wrote:

GregT wrote:

Aww look, ickle Attica has found some friends to go play with, how cute

Thought I'd say it for you GT, you urbane thing you

I would expect nothing less

grayo59

Bristawl, here.

To the OP - Mawlbruh's not West Country it's awmost a suburb of Lundun!

And Cheltnum's awmost Brummie! Or is that Welsh Marches? Or is that Oxford? Hmm, perhaps its in the North East of the West Country - North East? Must be Geordies or Mackams then! Or then again ...

We Bristolians think we come from a "big" city; we think 400,000 pop. is "big" when we talk to some Weston-super-Mare beachcomber pier burners. They remind us that although we're a bit bigger than Cardiff and Plymouth and Southampton we're only less than half the size of Glasgow and Birmingham and 5% the size of London!

I think it goes back to the 13th Century when we were the 2nd biggest city in England.

attica

Bristol is the 10th biggest city in the UK.
I have spent a fair amount of time in all of the top 10 apart from Sheffield as well as many of the smaller cities too. (I used to tour the country as a sound engineer, so you'll have to speak up) therefore I feel quite well placed to say that Brizzle is by far the nicest of those top 10 (less Sheffield which I don't know, but seen from the M1 it doesn't look all that inviting - then again, what city does from the motorway). The only other one that I'd consider living in would be Edinburgh, but that's just a little too far north for my liking.

So for me it's an informed choice to live in or near Brizzle.

PS I'm sure there will be howls of "What? You can't say that about..." but this is just my opinion, the only city I really don't have anything nice to say about would be Sunderland, eww.

DavidBelcher

Attica wrote:

(less Sheffield which I don't know, but seen from the M1 it doesn't look all that inviting - then again, what city does from the motorway).

The M1 passes up the East side of the city, which isn't so nice - the West side, on the other hand, is where Sheffield merges into the Peak District, with excellent cycling country to be had.

David

Clever Pun

NGale wrote:

Clever Pun wrote:

Born and bred Okehampton boy

wey hey! I lived in Okehampton up until May of this year, back in Exeter now (Exeter born and raised) still go to Okie each week for St John Ambulance training and served on the town council for a while.

Anyway, down here we are not strictly West Country, we are in the South West. Bristol and that area is the Westcountry.

Respect...

umm why'd you live there? by choice?

Most importantly did you go to Neros?

NGale

Clever Pun wrote:

NGale wrote:

Clever Pun wrote:

Born and bred Okehampton boy

wey hey! I lived in Okehampton up until May of this year, back in Exeter now (Exeter born and raised) still go to Okie each week for St John Ambulance training and served on the town council for a while.

Anyway, down here we are not strictly West Country, we are in the South West. Bristol and that area is the Westcountry.

Respect...

umm why'd you live there? by choice?

Most importantly did you go to Neros?

was the cheapest place for myself and my now ex to get a place together, couldn't afford to rent in Exeter, and with Okie being on the A30 it was easy to get back into Exeter for work. I am seriously considering going back up there when I have the money.

As for Neros....noooo, about the only person in the town who didn't Neros is no longer now, was closed down a few months ago. has reopened as Rumours now. possibly still dodgy...