Somerset

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Somerset is a ceremonial county in the West Country of south-western England.^[1] It borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east and Devon to the south-west, with which it shares Exmoor (the location of the Exmoor Quidditch Stadium).

The Modesty Rabnott Snidget Reservation is located somewhere in this county, founded c. 14th century, and the county was the location of the search for a giant suspected to have been involved in the 1996 destruction in the West Country caused by the Death Eaters.^[2][3]

It also contains the city of Bath (the home of a witch who owned a cursed book which could never be finished^[4]) on the edge of the Cotswolds hills, which are known to contain trolls who killed Gondoline Oliphant in 1799.^[5]

Locations in Somerset

• Cotswolds (partially)
  • Bath
• Exmoor (partially)
  • Exmoor Quidditch Stadium (possibly)
• Modesty Rabnott Snidget Reservation

Behind the scenes

• On 1 September, 2012, a seventeen-year-old named Alissa Howard from Somerset was revealed to be the winner of a competition by Bloomsbury Publishing to find the United Kingdom and Ireland's biggest Harry Potter fan.^[6]
• Actors Sheila Allen, John Cleese, Robbie Jarvis and Angelica Mandy were all born in Somerset.

Appearances

• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• Quidditch Through the Ages

Notes and references