Editing South West England (section)

===Somerset===
{{Main|Economy of Somerset}}
[[File:Shunting the engine - geograph.org.uk - 107049.jpg|thumb|[[Mendip Vale railway station|Mendip Vale]] the nearest station to the city of [[Wells, Somerset|Wells]] which is cut off from the rest of the UK by the [[Beeching cuts]].]]
[[Screwfix]] is in Yeovil, and [[C&J Clark|Clarks shoes]] with [[K-Swiss]] Europe are in [[Street, Somerset|Street]], although most of its shoes are made in the Far East. [[Shepton Mallet]] is home of [[Blackthorn Cider]] and the [[Gaymer Cider Company]]. [[Dairy Crest]] packs [[Cathedral City Cheddar|Cathedral City]] cheese in [[Frome]]. The [[Glastonbury Festival]] at [[Pilton, Somerset|Pilton]] (nearer to Shepton Mallet than Glastonbury), off the [[A361 road|A361]], is the UK's biggest music festival.<ref>{{Cite web |last=V&A |date=2022 |title=V&A · The history of Glastonbury Festival |url=https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/the-history-of-glastonbury-festival |access-date=22 October 2022 |website=Victoria and Albert Museum |language=en}}</ref>

[[File:Uniq factory, Evercreech - geograph.org.uk - 446994.jpg|thumb|left|Greencore make premium chilled desserts, such as [[tiramisu]] for M & S, at their site (former [[St Ivel]], then [[Uniq plc|Uniq]] Desserts) off the B3081 at [[Evercreech]] ]]
The [[Royal Marines]] have a [[Norton Manor Camp|large base]] for [[40 Commando]] west of [[Taunton]], with their [[Commando Training Centre Royal Marines|training centre]] at [[Lympstone Commando]] in Devon, on the [[Avocet Line]] with its own station of [[Lympstone Commando railway station|Lympstone]] and the A376 and [[River Exe]]. [[Attentional]] in Taunton deliver audience figures for [[Broadcasters' Audience Research Board|BARB]]. [[DS Smith]]'s [[Wansbrough Paper Mill]] at [[Watchet]] on the coast is the UK's largest manufacturer of [[coreboard]]. [[Fletcher Boats]] make speedboats in [[Langport]]. [[TePe]] UK (Swedish) supply toothbrushes.

Thales Defence closed its radar site (former EMI Electronics) near Wookey Hole, in [[St Cuthbert Out]]. [[Thales Underwater Systems]] (former [[Plessey]] Marine) is at [[Templecombe|Abbas and Templecombe]], Somerset, off the A357 towards Dorset in the [[Blackmore Vale]], east of Yeovil. [[Commando Helicopter Force]] at [[RNAS Yeovilton (HMS Heron)|Yeovilton]] operates Merlins and Wildcats (the upgraded version of the [[Westland Lynx|Lynx]]). [[Mulberry (company)|Mulberry]] is based at [[Chilcompton]] on the B3139, north of Shepton Mallet, in the Mendips. [[Cox & Cox]] furnishings, is north of Frome in [[Berkley, Somerset]] off the A361. [[Fox Brothers]] make cloth in [[Wellington, Somerset|Wellington]], and [[Relyon (furniture)|Relyon]] (part of [[Steinhoff International]]) make beds.

Italian defence contractor [[Leonardo S.p.A.|Leonardo]] makes helicopters at [[Yeovil]], formerly the home of [[Westland Helicopters]], building the [[AgustaWestland AW159 Wildcat]]. To the east of Yeovil, in [[Houndstone]], Garador make [[garage door]]s (part of Hörmann Group of [[Amshausen]], Europe's largest mechanical door manufacturer). [[Yeo Valley Organic]] is in [[Blagdon]]. [[Numatic International Limited]] makes [[vacuum cleaner]]s in [[Chard, Somerset|Chard]], and [[Brecknell Willis]], a railway engineering company on the [[A30 road|A30]], makes [[Pantograph (rail)|pantograph]]s; [[ActionAid UK]] is in the Chard Business Centre, off the A358 in the north of Chard, near a centrifugal [[oil filter]] plant of [[Mann+Hummel]]. [[Dairy Crest]] made [[brandy butter]] south of the town in [[Tatworth|Tatworth and Forton]], near the meeting point of Dorset, Somerset and Devon. [[Ministry of Cake]], owned by Greencore since December 2007 on the A3065 in [[Staplegrove]] in the west of Taunton, is the leading provider of frozen desserts to the UK foodservice industry. The [[United Kingdom Hydrographic Office]] is in Taunton. [[Pilgrims Choice]] cheddar is made by Adams Foods (former [[North Downs Dairy]]) at Wincanton. [[Ariel Motor Company]] in Crewkerne, make the [[Ariel Atom]].

[[Gerber Products Company|Refresco Gerber]] in the north of Bridgwater, between the A38 and the [[River Parrett]], make [[SunnyD]], [[Libby's]], [[Innocent Drinks]], [[Del Monte Foods|Del Monte]], [[Just Juice]] and [[Ocean Spray (cooperative)|Ocean Spray]].

[[File:Higher Stockham Farm - geograph.org.uk - 241476.jpg|thumb|right|Former brandy butter plant at [[Chard Junction]] next to the [[River Axe (Lyme Bay)|River Axe]] ]]
Next to the [[Royal Portbury Dock]], off junction 19 of the M5 on the A369 is [[Lafarge (company)|Lafarge]] Plasterboard. [[Thatchers Cider]] is in [[Sandford, Somerset|Sandford]], [[North Somerset]] on the [[A368 road|A368]], two miles east of the M5. Towards Bristol Airport, [[Claverham (company)|Claverham]] make actuation equipment for the aerospace sector in [[Yatton]] in [[North Somerset]], off the [[A370 road|A370]], and is part of [[Hamilton Sundstrand]], derived from the electrical systems part of [[Fairey Aviation]].

[[Wessex Water]], [[Future plc]], [[Buro Happold]] and [[Rotork]] are in [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]]. Cadbury used to make ''[[Curly Wurly]]'', ''[[Double Decker (chocolate bar)|Double Decker]]'' and ''[[Crunchie]]'' at the [[Somerdale Factory]], [[Keynsham]] until Kraft closed the plant in March 2011 and moved production to [[Skarbimierz, Opole Voivodeship]] in Poland.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Kelly|first1=Chris|title=Broken chocolate factory pledge devastates Keynsham|work=BBC News |date=14 January 2011 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-12126550|access-date=21 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110528023241/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-12126550|archive-date=28 May 2011|url-status=live}}</ref>