AHC: British Bible Belt

An area of mainland Britain where, historically and continuing to the present day, conservative Evangelical Protestantism is the dominant religious tradition, a significant part of the culture and church attendance is significantly higher than the nation's average. Is this possible and if so where in Great Britain?
 
I imagine Scotland would be a candidate, being that Presbyterianism comes from there and if they had greater national aspirations (i.e. Ireland) church attendance would be a de facto protest against union with England.
 
Yes.

I would also like to see how this would affect politics, if it would in a British context.

Well, the valleys are very pro-Labour and have always been.

I think in a British context, it would be more 'Christian democracy' rather than the American bible-belt Republicans.

I don't know whether it would have that much of an effect politically, they'd still be opposed to Thatcher and the Conservatives due to the economic situation.

Harold Wilson in the 60s was a congregationalist and whilst he was personally uneasy over the social reforms, they still went ahead.
 
... don't nearly all countries have one or more areas which are stereotyped into being highly religous? ... if they're to the degree of US Bible Belt is then only a question of how extreme they go (or the rest moves away from a previous average)
 
Rural north and west Wales and the Scottish highlands and islands.

Both areas had much stricter Sunday trading restrictions until quite recently.
 
North and West Devon along with North Cornwall also qualify as an OTL mini English Bible Belt- to this day it's a very Methodist/Evangelical area, with high church attendance and politicised congregations; the local vicars would regularly write to Westminster about things like Gay Marriage, Sunday trading and overseas Christian persecution, before reading our responses out at Sunday services. If they didn't like what they heard, you quickly knew about it...
 
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