Editing South West England (section)

===Gloucestershire===
[[File:GCHQ-aerial.jpg|thumb|right|240px|An aerial view of [[The Doughnut|GCHQ's headquarters]], 2004; the biggest employer in Gloucestershire is the intelligence agency [[Government Communications Headquarters|GCHQ]], who are based at '[[The Doughnut]]', their headquarters<ref name=Guard03>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/jun/10/terrorism.Whitehall|title=The Doughnut, the less secretive weapon in the fight against international terrorism|author=Richard Norton-Taylor|date=10 June 2003|work=The Guardian|access-date=15 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219033921/http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/jun/10/terrorism.Whitehall|archive-date=19 December 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> GCHQ has around 6,000 staff, [[MI5]] has 4,000, and MI6 ([[Secret Intelligence Service]]) has 3,200; GCHQ is in the west of Cheltenham, off the A40 at the [[A4013 road (Great Britain)|A4013]] roundabout at [[Fiddlers Green, Cheltenham|Fiddlers Green]], and also has a site to the east at [[Oakley, Gloucestershire|Oakley]] ]]
In Cheltenham are [[Endsleigh Insurance]] in [[Shurdington]], [[Kohler Mira Ltd]] (showers), [[Superdry]] (clothing), [[Collins Bartholomew|Collins Geo]] (maps), and [[Chelsea Building Society]] are on the A435 to the south-east. North of Cheltenham at [[Bishop's Cleeve]], south of the village on the A435, is [[GE Aviation Systems|GE Aviation Systems UK]] on the large Cleeve Business Park; this which was the former 300-acre site of the Cheltenham Division of [[Smiths Group|Smiths Industries]] that made flight control systems and flight deck displays; further up the A435 is a main site of [[Zurich Insurance Group|Zurich Assurance]] UK. [[Weird Fish]] (clothing) is near [[Spirax-Sarco Engineering|Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc]] (pumps) off the [[A4019 road|A4019]] in Kingsditch in [[Swindon Village]], north of Cheltenham; on the other side of the A4019, [[Douglas Equipment]], next to [[All Saints' Academy, Cheltenham]], makes [[Pushback (aviation)|towing]] tractors for aircraft. [[Gulf Oil]] UK was headquartered on B4075 in Prestbury (near the racecourse) until 1997, when [[Royal Dutch Shell|Shell UK]] bought its petrol stations; the former headquarters became a student hall of the [[University of Gloucestershire]].

Computer security firm [[NortonLifeLock|Symantec]] have a site in Gloucester, the base of [[Ecclesiastical Insurance]]. [[Dowty Rotol]] (who make propellers) and [[Bond Aviation Group]] (helicopter leasing) are next to [[Gloucestershire Airport]] at [[Staverton, Gloucestershire|Staverton]]; Helimedia is the UK distributor of the L-3 [[Wescam]], the Canadian thermal imaging system found with many UK [[Police aviation in the United Kingdom|police air support units]] and [[Air ambulances in the United Kingdom|air ambulances]]. The [[Cheltenham & Gloucester]] bank was [[Barnwood]] (north Gloucester), next to [[Unilever]]'s manufacturing site for [[Wall's (ice cream)|Wall's]] ice cream at the [[A417 road|A417]]/A38 roundabout next to the railway; on other side of the railway in [[Elmbridge, Gloucester|Elmbridge]] is [[Lanes Health]] who make [[Olbas Oil]] and [[Kalms]]; to the south, [[EDF Energy]] (former [[British Energy]]) have their [[Nuclear power in the United Kingdom|nuclear energy]] engineering centre with [[Horizon Nuclear Power]]. Between the former C&G and EDF at Barnwood, [[Barclays]]' data centre services all of its [[Automated teller machine|ATMs]] in the south of England.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}

[[File:Main landing gear of Airbus A330 and A340.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.75|[[Safran Landing Systems|Safran Landing Systems UK]] (former Messier-Dowty, historically Britain's main aircraft [[Landing gear|undercarriage]] manufacturer, now owned by [[Safran]]) make undercarriage for Boeing aircraft; the South West region has the most [[Aerospace industry in the United Kingdom|aerospace industry in the UK]] (followed by the North West, which has [[Warton Aerodrome|Warton]] and [[Samlesbury Aerodrome|Samlesbury]])]]
[[Moog Inc|Moog Controls]] UK, on the [[Ashchurch]] Ind Estate by [[Ashchurch for Tewkesbury railway station|Ashchurch for Tewkesbury]] near junction 9 (A46) of the M5, make [[Electrohydraulic servo valve|servo valve]]s for the aerospace industry ([[Aircraft flight control system|flight control system]]s or AFCS), in [[Northway, Gloucestershire|Northway]]; also on the estate is [[Steinhoff International|Steinhoff]] UK, who own [[Sleepmasters]] and [[Bensons for Beds]]. [[Floortex]] (floor coverings) is on Tewkesbury Business Park, west of the M5 south of [[Duraflex]].  Near the M5 Ashchurch Interchange off the [[A438 road|A438]], [[RR Donnelley]] GDS print Barclaycard statements. The [[Colt Car Company|Colt Car Company UK]] (who distribute [[Mitsubishi Motors]]) are in [[Cirencester]], and [[Corin Group]] make [[Joint replacement|artificial joint]]s on the [[A429 road|A429]] near the [[Royal Agricultural University]].

The [[Stroud & Swindon Building Society]] and [[Ecotricity]] are in [[Stroud, Gloucestershire|Stroud]] near [[Stroud railway station|Stroud station]]. [[WSP Textiles]] (a former division of [[Milliken & Company|Milliken]]) on the A46 towards [[Rodborough]] in the south of Stroud make felt for [[billiard table]]s ([[Strachan cloth]]), and for [[tennis ball]]s for three [[Grand Slam (tennis)|Grand Slam]] tournaments ([[William Playne & Co|Playne's tennis ball cloth]]). [[Dairy Crest]] makes [[Frijj]] milkshake at its large dairy at [[Severnside]] on the Stroudwater Business Park at [[Stonehouse, Gloucestershire|Stonehouse]] next to the M5, within walking distance of [[Stonehouse railway station|Stonehouse station]]; nearby ReedHycalog (owned by [[National Oilwell Varco]]) make industrial [[drill bit]]s off the [[A419 road|A419]] on the Oldends Ind Est, near [[ABB]] UK, who make [[Flow measurement|flow meter]]s; [[Delphi Automotive|Delphi Diesel Systems]] UK, on the business park, make [[Unit Injector|electronic unit injector]]s; Renishaw plc have large machining centre on north of the business park; [[SKF]] (Swedish) make [[ball bearing]]s (Aeroengine & High Precision Bearings Division, for Rolls-Royce) to the south of the estate (former [[Ransome Hoffmann Pollard]]), then [[NSK Ltd.|NSK]] until 2002); the company has another site at Clevedon in Somerset.

[[File:Entrance to UCAS - geograph.org.uk - 881386.jpg|thumb|right|The entrance to [[UCAS]] in 2008; it has around 37,000 courses at 370 institutions; it is in the north of Cheltenham, near the [[Cheltenham Racecourse|racecourse]] in [[Prestbury, Gloucestershire|Prestbury]] at the [[A435 road|A435]]/B4075 junction]]

[[Beverage Brands]] is based at [[Hucclecote]] on the [[Gloucester Business Park]] off B4641 east of the M5 [[Brockworth, Gloucestershire|Brockworth]] Interchange, with Horizon Nuclear Power, and next to [[NHS Gloucestershire]]); in the same building is MessageLabs ([[NortonLifeLock|Symantec]]), and a main office of [[Ageas]] UK (insurance). Further south in Brockworth is [[Direct Wines]] (Laithwaites); to the east is a [[G-TEKT Corporation|G-TEKT]] (former Takao Europe) automotive [[Stamping (metalworking)|metal pressings]] and sub-assemblies factory and a large [[Invista]] textiles factory (former ICI Fibres, then Dupont from 1992, which makes nylon fibres);
the site is built on the former Gloster Aircraft factory, which closed around 1960. [[Renishaw plc]] is in [[Wotton-under-Edge]], previously being in [[Nailsworth]]. [[Lister Petter]], off the [[A4135 road|A4135]] in [[Dursley]], make [[Diesel generator|diesel engine generator]] sets; [[Lister Shearing]] is the only British manufacturer of [[Hair clipper|clipping]] and [[Sheep shearing|shearing]] (animals) equipment. The [[Fire Service College]] is in [[Moreton-in-Marsh]] near [[Moreton-in-Marsh railway station|Moreton-in-Marsh station]]. [[Northcot Brick]] is at [[Blockley]], in the north-east, next to the [[Cotswold Line|railway]]; [[Per Una]] is based near [[Draycott, Gloucestershire|Draycott]].

[[Mabey Group]], off the [[A48 road|A48]] at [[Lydney]] make wind turbine towers; on the other side of the A48, [[Federal-Mogul]] have a foundry making [[camshaft]]s. [[Suntory]] (Japanese) makes [[Lucozade]] (from 1957) and [[Ribena]] (from 1947) at the [[Royal Forest Factory]] off the B4228 in [[Coleford, Gloucestershire|Coleford]] in the [[Forest of Dean (district)|Forest of Dean]]; [[William Horlick]], originator of another well-known former [[GlaxoSmithKline|GSK]] product, was born in the Forest of Dean in 1846.

[[File:Westland apache wah-64d longbow zj206 arp.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Army Air Corps (United Kingdom)|Army Air Corps]] [[List of active United Kingdom military aircraft|has 67]] Yeovil-built, [[Rolls-Royce Turbomeca RTM322|Rolls-Royce RTM322]]-powered [[AgustaWestland Apache]] AH1 helicopters; since 2010, the helicopters now have the much-more advanced [[Apache Arrowhead]] night-vision system which superseded [[Target Acquisition and Designation Sights, Pilot Night Vision System|TADS/PNVS]]; in October 2016, the Royal Navy had 94 helicopters; the [[Fleet Air Arm Museum]] is Europe's largest naval air museum]]