Somerset

Somerset was a county in England, Earth.

Barbara Wright once took a holiday there. (TV: The Reign of Terror)

Flowers and trees were once in full bloom in winter there. (PROSE: Wolfsbane)

The Fourth Doctor thought that Garron used a Somerset accent. (TV: The Ribos Operation)

The Seventh Doctor once stated that he had spent two weeks in Taunton, and that he'd never been so bored. (PROSE: The Highest Science)

Oscar Botcherby once claimed that his father had been an air raid warden in the Somerset town of Shepton Mallet during the Second World War. (TV: The Two Doctors)

The Severn Bridge connected Somerset to South Wales. (TV: The New World)

The Twelfth Doctor described The Prison's TransNet link as "slower than sending a text message in Somerset." (PROSE: The Blood Cell)

Behind the scenes

 * Situated on the opposite coast of the Bristol Channel, it is possible to look out onto Cardiff, and even Flat Holm from several locations.
 * Actor David Dodimead was born in the town of Shepton Mallet, 8 April 1919.

Filming locations

 * Locations in Somerset have often been used for filming, including:
 * Wookey Hole Caves. (TV: Revenge of the Cybermen)
 * Quarries near Frome. (TV: Time and the Rani)
 * Wells Cathedral, as the interior of Southwark Cathedral. (TV: The Lazarus Experiment)
 * Severn Bridge. (TV: The New World)

Real World Locations
Though it's possible that the following locations don't exist in the same geographic space in the Doctor Who universe, such cases are few and far between. Therefore, the following towns and cities are probably located within the county of Somerset. {|
 * Axbridge||Bath||Bridgwater||Bruton||Burnham-on-Sea||Castle Cary||Chard||Clevedon||Crewkerne||Dulverton||Frome||Glastonbury||Highbridge||Ilminster||Keynsham||Langport||Martock||Midsomer Norton||Minehead||Nailsea||North Petherton||Portishead||Radstock||Shepton Mallet||Somerton||South Petherton||Street||Taunton||Watchet||Wellington||Wells||Weston-Super-Mare||Wincanton||Wiveliscombe||Yeovil