Wickhills

*Wickhills, Ohio* is the town in which Love and Other Fairytales is set, and the home of all the major characters. It is inhabited by a large number of fae as well as humans, and has a number of strange magical properties.

## Description

Wickhills is a small and largely self-contained rural town. The two largest streets in town are Main and Fletcher, which meet at a fountain in the town center. The town proper is surrounded by a large, dense forest. There is a farmer's market in town every Saturday.

The town is described as having a population of "five hundred humans on the outside, about three times that in deer, and about five times that in other things."

One of the magical properties of Wickhills is that residents find it impossible to permanently leave town. They may go away for a period, but always find themselves returning sooner or later. Inhabitants are unfriendly towards outsiders, in an attempt to prevent them from becoming stuck in this manner.

## Geographical Location

The exact location of Wickhills is disputed by those living in the surrounding area, although residents know that roads out of town lead to different places at different times. It is generally agreed that Wickhills is in south-east Ohio, although Hazel Coughenour insists they are in West Virginia.

Locations mentioned as being in the approximate vicinity of Wickhills include:

* Logan
* Nelsonville
* Haydenville
* Marietta
* Athens
* Wayne National Forest
* Tar Hollow State Park
* Hocking Hills (also very closely resembles Wickhills)

## Fae Affects on Wickhills

Wickhills does not have a permanent location, as mentioned above. Cell phones work within the town but not if calling outside it; in these cases, landlines offer a better chance at connection. Wickhills also has "about as poor a relationship with it’s physical location as it did with the *actual laws of physics."* Time is also nebulous to the town. A large concentration of magic also attracts witches to the area.

## Locations in Town

### Governmental infrastructure

* Wickhills Police Department
* The fire department
* The Post Office and The Mailman
* The Water Tower
* Fletcher Street Park
* Cliff Park
* Wickhills Town Hall

### Cultural/Religious infrastructure

* There are 6 churches in Wickhills: Calvary Freewill Baptist Church, Rose of St. Barbara Catholic Church, Wickhills United Methodist Church, Fletcher Street Chapel, Twin Cliff Church, Point Hill Lutheran Ministries.
* There are 2 graveyards and one cemetery: Crown Hill Memorial Park is the cemetery, Rose Of St. Barbara Cemetery and Fletcher Street Chapel Graveyard are both graveyards.
* Wickhills Public School District. Wickhills Elementary, Wickhills Junior High, and Wickhills High School are all on the same campus where there are also football, soccer, and baseball fields. The mascot is the Marching Knights and the colors are blue and red.
* A public pool
* Wickhills Community Tribune- the local paper. Commonly referred to as just “the Tribune”.

### Other Infrastructure

* The grocery store
* The butcher
* The farmer’s market (saturday mornings in the main square)
* Wickhills Rural Hospital
* The dentist (Dr. Quickel, who appears in *a blade buried in wet soil,* and is the husband of Mrs. Quickel, from *every other page is a mirror*)
* Tow truck (the tow yard of which is featured in Spiderling)
* Hardware store/Mechanic (owned by Anton Adams, Polly’s father and Remy and Nate’s uncle)
* An agricultural store that is not a Tractor Supply but everyone CALLS the tractor supply and usually doesnt remember the actual name of
* Two gas stations, one of which has a deli
* Emile’s psychiatry practice (much later in the timeline)

### Other Shops

* Scoops- an ice cream shop with an associated ice cream truck (Patton works here through college)
* 2 antique/thrift stores (Salvage Garden and Good as New which is mentioned but not by name in Small)
* A barbershop
* 3 diners (Crown Hill Diner, The Gallery, Fiddler's)
* Pepperoni's Pizza
* The army surplus store
* A bar (Main Street Pub)
* Patton’s bakery (much later in the timeline)
* Logan’s flower shop (much later in the timeline)

### other notable features and landmarks

* The hanging tree
* the main square/main square fountain (mentioned in *every other page is a mirror*, where the above mentioned farmer’s market takes place).
* The train tracks (mentioned in *Loyalty*)
* Wickhills Mining Company (abandoned mine)
* The Wickham River
* Along the river there are two covered bridges (one of which appears in *for the world’s more full of weeping*), Twin Cliff Falls (from *Joy*), and a very wide assortment of tributaries and creeks running off of it (one of which is usually near the Gage house and appears in Reach)

### Notable residents

* The Sanders house
* The Waller farm

### Surrounding Area

* The Gage house
* Virgil's clearing
* Wickhills Forest

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Every Other Page Is A Mirror
2. ↑ https://tulipscomeinallsortsofcolors.tumblr.com/post/186906796140/what-state-do-the-boys-live
3. ↑ Loyalty pt. 2
4. ↑ https://tulipscomeinallsortsofcolors.tumblr.com/post/187051486710/vi-when-does-laoft-main-take-place-2018-do-you
5. ↑ https://tulipscomeinallsortsofcolors.tumblr.com/post/186313985320/have-you-explained-more-about-the-witches-in

1. ↑ https://tulipscomeinallsortsofcolors.tumblr.com/post/617215286944448513/i-was-gonna-ask-if-you-have-a-map-of-wickhills-but