7 December 2017

Gazetteer – The Pagans

A reader has mentioned that with good effect he used Google Maps to follow the plot of one of my books. This gave me the idea of listing all the place-names that occur in my stories, indicating which are fictitious and which real. Links are given to the relevant pages at Google Maps or Wikipedia, whichever is more appropriate.

In this post I detail the places mentioned in the Pagans trilogy; succeeding posts will deal with the other books.

Apuldram
Bignor
Birdbrow
Blackpatch Hill
Bow Hill
Brennis [Britain]
Burh [fictitious; sited on east bank of Cuckmere River in or near modern Seven Sisters Country Park; the name is an early form of ‘borough’, meaning a settlement]
Butser
Chaer [fictitious]
Cissbury
Coblenz
Cobnor
Cornwall
Eartham
Eastoke
Fernbed
Findon
Frisian Islands
Giessen
Greifswald
Harting
Highdole
Hohe [fictitious]
Hooe
Iberia
Itchenor
Lavant
Lepe
Levin Down
Matley [fictitious]
Normandy
Pilsey Island
Raighe [fictitious]
Raven Hill [fictitious]
Rifes, The
River Adur
River Arun
River Rhône
River Rother
Sandle, Mount [fictitious]
Thundersbarrow
Trundle, The
Valdoe [see The Trundle; named after a nearby settlement]
Vinzy [fictitious]
The Weald
Whitehawk
Yote Wood [fictitious, somewhere near Rickmansworth]

1 comment:

Moe The Cat said...

Thanks for this, Richard. I did not know that The Trundle was a real place!