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* Since [[Trip Hop]] got started in Bristol, its early creators embody this: [[Massive Attack]], [[Portishead]] (named after their hometown) and [[Tricky]] (from Knowle West).
* Michael Adams, Britain's current #1 chess player, was born and brought up in Cornwall, and now lives in Somerset.
* Fictional example: Bomber from ''[[Auf Wiedersehen, Pet]]'', portrayed as a Bristolian by Pat Roach (really from [[The Midlands]]).
* ''[[Doc Martin]]'' is set in a small [[Quirky Town|fishing village]] somewhere [[Cornwall]]-ish.
* The moles of ''[[Redwall]]'', with their infamously incomprehensible [[Funetik Aksent]], were [[Write Who You Know|based on some Somerset inhabitants]] Brian Jacques met during RAF training.
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