# Best place to rent a car in rural England?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-place-to-rent-a-car-in-rural-england/808348>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 7, 2018, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-place-to-rent-a-car-in-rural-england/808348 "2018-02-07T03:02:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2018, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-place-to-rent-a-car-in-rural-england/808348/21 "2018-02-14T18:29:47Z")

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For a Briton, ‘just west of Yeovil’ means within 5 miles. Otherwise you’re ‘just east of Taunton / Exeter’ or ‘just north of Lyme Regis / Honiton’. 🙂

You’re not going to Glastonbury, are you? Because if you’re there for the Extravaganza, that’s a whole different kettle of fish.

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**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2018, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-place-to-rent-a-car-in-rural-england/808348/22 "2018-02-15T21:57:55Z")

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> [@Dead\_Cat](#):
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> Yeovil is nowhere near Cornwall in British terms :). When you say “just west of Yeovil”, do you mean 20 miles west, or 100 miles west (the latter of which would actually be Cornwall)?

Yeah…as I already admitted to Filbert, to this dumb American “Cornwall” is everything west of Bristol. Which I know is sort of like saying everything west of the Mississippi River is California. (It’s not as bad as calling a Welshman “English”, though, as I did on my very first trip to Britain. He politely but firmly corrected my egregious error, which I have never done again.)

I’m actually staying in Somerset, about 25 minutes west of Yeovil. Yes, mentioning that the first week would be in London would have been helpful. So the best itinerary might be to take a coach/train directly from London to near Yeovil and pick up the car rental. At the end we’d drop off the car in Yeovil and take a coach/train to Heathrow.

I already have plans to stop at Montgomery Cheese ([http://www.montgomerycheese.co.uk/](http://www.montgomerycheese.co.uk/)) to gorge on Cheddar. Do you think that the Naval Aviation Museum is worth a visit? [http://www.fleetairarm.com/](http://www.fleetairarm.com/)

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2018, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-place-to-rent-a-car-in-rural-england/808348/23 "2018-02-15T22:22:52Z")

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> [@Deeg](#):
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> Yeah…as I already admitted to Filbert, to this dumb American “Cornwall” is everything west of Bristol. Which I know is sort of like saying everything west of the Mississippi River is California.

I sometimes forget that it doesn’t start just west of Yeovil, and only remember when I see Exeter on the map and remember playing a game in the 90s that mentions it is in Devon.

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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2018, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-place-to-rent-a-car-in-rural-england/808348/24 "2018-02-16T01:37:11Z")

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> [@Deeg](#):
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> I’m actually staying in Somerset, about 25 minutes west of Yeovil.

So somewhere near Taunton or Bridgewater? Or are you being optimistic and calling Minehead 25 mins west? Please, stop being coy and tell us where you’ll be staying. We can’t help you if we don’t know. The transport system is sufficiently - ahem - interesting that a few miles can make a big difference.

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2018, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-place-to-rent-a-car-in-rural-england/808348/25 "2018-02-16T01:45:02Z")

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Not if you’re a fast walker 🙂

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