England of South-west

Area located in the South-west of the England, its administrations are localized with Bristol and Plymouth. Its surface is of 23 829 km ² ( 1st area ), its population are of (census 2001) 4 928 458 ( 7th area ) is a density of 207 h/km ² .

The area will continue still a long time to profit from a help structural of Brussels in the widened Union.

Cities

Cornouailles

Tighten Eden project: Three years after its opening to the public, the Eden Project became one of the attractions most attended in Europe, with two million visitors per annum. Close to Saint-Austell, three immense light steel bubbles, installed in a career, of which highest reaches 50 meters, form the largest greenhouse of the world (tropical and Mediterranean), sheltering thousands of plants and trees. A teaching, ecological and economic success (http://www.edenproject.com).

Mine tin: The old tin mine of Geevor, on the northern coast, to 10 km of Penzance, is visited all the year (http://www.geevor.com).

Readings: Cornouailles inspired two large English novelists, Daphné Of Maurier (the Inn of Jamaica) and Virginia Woolf (the Walk with the Headlight): the author evokes his memories of childhood in Saint-Ives. To familiarize itself with the regional legends: Mysteries off the Cornish Coast, of Ian Addicoat and Geoff Buswell; Cornish Legends, of Robert Hunt. For a short historical introduction: Cornwall' S History, of Philip Payron; King Arthur, Man gold Myth? , of Paul White.

Field of prince Charles

The prince Charles, duke of Cornouailles, has a field of 52 000 hectares on the ungrateful ground which replaces its civil list where it based a line of products bio . A village of thousand traditional houses out of granite and slates there has just been built close to Newquay. As it is close to the beaches most appreciated for the vague ones its nickname is Surfbury .

See too

the abstract area of the West Country .

Simple: South West England

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