Britain: Points of Interest

**Points of interest in Britain**, actual, legendary and fictional (south of Hadrian's Wall--Scotland is treated separately).

See London for landmarks in that city.

## Areas:

Cheshire

Cornwall

Devon

Essex

Kent

Lake District

Lothian

Lyonesse [50, -6]

Norfolk

Somerset

Suffolk

Worcestershire

Yorkshire

## Cities and Towns:

Athelney (Alfred the Great) [51.05553, -2.93106]

Banwen (St. Patrick) [51.77804, -3.65543] [WALES]

Bath/Aqua Sulis

Birmingham

Blackburn

Brighton

Bristol (Blackbeard) [51.44971, -2.59099]

Caerleon [51.61517, -2.95924] [WALES]

Cambridge

Camlann [50.63849, -4.67859]

Canterbury

Carmarthen (Merlin) [51.85642, -4.31053] [WALES]

Dorchester/Casterbridge [50.7107, -2.43401]

Colchester

Coventry/Middlemarch

Devises (The Moonrakers) [51.35231, -1.98685]

Dymchurch (Dr. Christopher Syn) [51.02546, 0.99645]

Godric's Hollow (Harry Potter) [51.15243, -3.69655]

Gotham [52.86634, -1.20519]

Grantham (Margaret Thatcher) [52.91587, -0.64507]

Hastings

Iping (Hawley Griffin) [50.99865, -0.78524]

Leeds

Leicester

Lincoln

Little Whinging (Dudley Dursley) [51.32932, -0.74569]

Liverpool

London

Loxley (Robin Hood) [53.4102, -1.55463]

Ludlow Fair [52.36844, -2.72426]

Lympne (Doctor Cavor) [50.96748, -2.31196]

Macclesfield (Ian Curtis) [53.25359, -2.13205]

Manchester

Marlott (Tess Durbeyfield) [50.96748, -2.31196]

Midwich (Midwich Cuckoos) [50.98712, -0.73805]

Mortlake (John Dee) [51.47977, -0.27852]

Newark (Lemuel Gulliver) [53.07622, -0.81194]

Newcastle (John Constantine) [54.97781, -1.61322]

Norwich (The Man in the Moon)

Nottingham

Ottery St. Catchpole (Ron Weasley) [50.6995, -3.2904

Oxford

Porlock [51.20923, -3.59329]

Portishead [51.48138, -2.76855]

Raveloe (Silas Marner) [52.47687, -1.42526]

St. Ives [50.21144, -5.48075]

St. Just in Roseland (Joseph of Arimathea)

St. Mary Mead (Miss Marple) [51.4001, -0.62992]

Slough (Wernham-Hogg) [51.51985, -0.63179]

Stratford-Upon-Avon [52.51876, -0.46272]

Scarborough Fair [54.28752, -0.38782]

Totnes (Brutus of Troy)

Whitby (Capt. James Cook, Lucy Westenra) [54.49018, -0.61665]

York

## Natural Landmarks:

### Bodies of Water:

Dozmary Pool (Lady of the Lake) [50.54231, -4.55021]

Romney Marsh (The Scarecrow) [51.04527, 0.97194]

Severn River

The Thames

### Fields:

Bagshot Heath (Macheath, Claud Duval) [51.37263, -0.73333]

Runnymede (King John) [51.44447, -0.56605]

Watership Down [51.30995, -1.28836]

### Forests:

The Beanstalk [50.09063, -5.64697]

Epping Forest (Dick Turpin) [51.66, 0.04999]

Herne's Oak [51.47598, -0.59772]

Hundred Acre Woods [51.04587, 0.07016]

Morrois Forest (Tristran and Isolde)

Sherwood Forest

The Wild Wood [51.56054, -0.75859]

### Islands:

Bardsey Island

Isle of Man

Isle of Wight

Lindisfarne [55.67061, -1.80167]

Mona/Anglesey [WALES]

St. Michael's Mount [50.116, -5.4772]

Sodor (Northwestern Railroad) [54.12382, -3.75045]

### Landforms:

Cotswolds

Highgate Hill (Dick Wittington) [51.56933, -0.14265]

Land's End [50.06882, -5.71632]

Mother Shipton's Cave [51.20923, -3.59329]

Mount Snowdon [53.06763, -4.07778] [WALES]

Pennines

Pook Hill (Puck) [50.98084, 0.3738]

St. George's Hill (The Diggers) [51.34519, -0.4531]

Solsbury Hill [51.41, -2.33416]

White Cliffs of Dover

## Structures:

### Castles:

Caer Gai (Sir Ector) [52.85266, -3.66239] [WALES]

Cameliard (Guenivere) [52.34126, -3.05651] [WALES]

Camelot [51.02405, -2.53178]

Castle Dore (King Mark) [50.36268, -4.66798]

Castle of Maidens [50.69519, -2.46858]

Castle Pendragon [54.41866, -2.33777]

Corbenek (Fisher King) [54.97475, -2.01671]

Dinas Emrys (Vortigern) [52.91161, -4.16549] [WALES]

Fotheringhay (Richard III, Mary Queen of Scots) [52.51876, -0.46272]

Joyeuse Garde (Lancelot) [55.60908, -1.71059]

Leeds Castle

Tintagel [50.66821, -4.75952]

Traprain Law (King Lot) [55.96666, -2.66666]

Warwick Castle

Windsor Castle [51.48398, -0.60442]

### Establishments:

Admiral Benbow Inn (Jim Hawkins) [51.22723, -3.87117]

Blue Boar Inn [53.0899, -0.87547]

The Cavern Club [51.51985, -0.63179]

Fawlty Towers [50.46876, -3.5045]

The Mill on the Floss [53.40036, -0.78086]

### Houses:

Baskerville Hall [50.51171, -3.93739]

Bleak House [51.75645, -0.34004]

Cliveden [51.55818, -0.68829]

Hampton Court (Henry VIII)

Hayslope (Adam Bede) [52.98686, -1.82688]

Hell Hall (Cruella de Vil) [52.14162, 0.70729]

Howard's End [51.9251, -0.19176]

Manderley (Max de Winter) [50.32964, -4.67058]

Mansfield Park [52.3592, -0.95751]

Mells Manor (Jack Horner) [51.24208, -2.39221]

Park House (Diana Spencer) [52.8281, 0.507]

Pemberley (Fitzwilliam Darcy) [53.22715, -1.61185]

Satis House (Miss Havisham) [51.38621, 0.50441]

Thornfield Hall (Edward Rochester) [53.33739, -1.64381]

Toad Hall [51.55346, -0.80043]

Wragby Hall (Lady Chatterley) [53.15129, -1.27922]

Wuthering Heights [53.81398, -2.03033]

### Monuments:

Avebury

Banbury Cross [52.06012, -1.34033]

Cerne Abbas Giant [50.81371, -2.47463]

Stonehenge [51.17885, -1.82622]

Tomb of Merlin [52.76048, -4.78898] [WALES]

Uffington Horse [51.57773, -1.56659]

### Religious Edifices:

Almesbury Priory (Guenivere) [51.17196, -1.78429]

Canterbury Cathedral (Thomas a Becket) [51.27972, 1.08305]

Carfax Abbey (Dracula) [51.48348, 0.23167

Chapel of the Green Knight [53.21906, -2.67075]

Fountains Abbey (Friar Tuck) [54.10993, -1.581]

Glastonbury Abbey

Northanger Abbey [51.67904, -2.38935]

St. David's Monastery [51.88342, -5.26921] [WALES]

Topping Abbey (Daniel Deronda) [51.4149, -2.11709]

Tintern Abbey [51.697, -2.677] [WALES]

Winchester Cathedral [51.06079, -1.31342]

### Others:

Hadrian's Wall

The Rabbithole (Alice Liddell) 51.7775, -1.29823

The Thirty-Nine Steps [51.37268, 1.4484]

Wayland's Smithy [51.56675, -1.59626]

Wold Newton Meteorite [54.13399, -0.41258]

## Maps

Albion

Logres

Merrie Olde England

Britannia

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