South West
Most of the region is located on the South West Peninsula, between the English Channel and Bristol Channel. It has the longest coastline of all the English regions, totalling over 700 miles (1,130 km). Geologically the region is divided into the largely igneous and metamorphic west and sedimentary east, the dividing line slightly to the west of the River Exe. Cornwall and West Devon's landscape is of rocky coastline and high moorland, notably at Bodmin Moor and Dartmoor.
• Roman Empire from AD 47 to about AD 409
• 7th century Anglo-Saxons
• 9th century and the arrival of the Danes
• 1140 the civil war of King Stephen's reign
• 1348 Black Death
• 1607 The Bristol Channel floods
• 19th century saw improvements to roads in the region with the introduction of turnpikes and the building of canals and railways
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