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FromMiddle EnglishWestsex, fromOld EnglishWestseaxan(literally“West Saxons”), which stood for both Wessex and its people. The use ofWessex in a modern context for the West Country was popularised byThomas Hardy, who used the term forhis semi-fictional setting based on the region.

Wessex

(historical) One of the seven majorAnglo-Saxonkingdoms, existing between the 6th and 9th centuries, and comprising most ofEngland south of theThames.
- 1894 December –1895 November, Thomas Hardy,Jude the Obscure, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.:Harper & Brothers, […], published1896,→OCLC:
  Grey-stoned and dun-roofed, it stood within hail of theWessex border, and almost with the tip of one small toe within it, at the northernmost point of the crinkled line along which the leisurely Thames strokes the fields of that ancient kingdom.
TheWest Country, ageographicarea in the south west ofEngland.
- 2001, James R. Babb,River Music: A Fly Fisher’s Four Seasons,→ISBN,page154:
  And I said I’d couch-surfed aroundWessex and Wales and had a good time, and the train ride from Devon to Scotland was long and smoky[…]
- 2010 August 19, Clive Aslet, “Crop circles: The mystery that keeps us going round in circles”, inThe Daily Telegraph:
  Crop circles are found in other parts of the globe, but not many. The 55 that have been spotted so far this year in Britain – mostly inWessex – are more than half the total number observed throughout the world.
- 2022 August 30, “All of south-west of England in drought, says Environment Agency”, inThe Guardian:
  TheWessex area – which includes Bristol, Somerset, Dorset, south Gloucestershire and parts of Wiltshire – has been declared in drought status.