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Answer for the clue "New scout’s botched attempt to find where Devon is? ", 12 letters:
west country

Word definitions for west country in dictionaries

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The West Country is a loosely defined area of south western England , often regarded as encompassing the historic counties of Cornwall , Devon , Dorset , Somerset , and the City and County of Bristol , while the counties of Gloucestershire and Wiltshire ...

Usage examples of west country.

The trucks traveled in close formation through the West Country, and arrived near Hereford just before dusk.

Sometimes they would walk for miles along deep and rutted lanes like those in England's west country.

The sailors of the west country had met the Spaniards on the Indian seas and proved their masters, and doubted not for a moment that they should do so again.

It is simply that you chance to bear a truly startling resemblance to one of my scribes back in York, but he is of West Country English antecedents.

He used to collect these huge rocklike fragments in the west country where they are fairly common.