Little Hangleton
Jul. 14th, 2006 03:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rosie_ruesMy little whirlwind R/S tour of England has set me to pondering the exact locations of certain places in the HP-world again. In particular, I'm wondering where exactly Little Hangleton is located. The Lexicon argues for Yorkshire, but I'm not quite convinced.
So, what do we know? Little Hangleton is around 200 miles from Little Whinging. It's rural. There are no other houses locally which are as grand and large as the Riddle House. It's hilly - the Riddle House is on a hill overlooking the village and the Gaunt House is in a copse on the hillside.
Given an error margin of about 25 miles each way, my exceedingly unscientific faffing around with a map suggests a band of possible locations which crosses the north midlands. It includes the northerly parts of Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire and Shropshire, the whole of Cheshire and Devon, the southerly parts of Lancashire and Yorkshire and parts of North Wales. Dismissing the Welsh options, purely on linguistic grounds, that leaves nine possible counties. Personally, I think Norfolk and Devon are unlikely - Norfolk, despite the tenuous fenland connection, is too flat, and Devon is too strongly associated with the Weasleys. I've left both in though, in case anyone feels differently ^_^ Lincolnshire interests me because it contains both hills and fens, which links the Gaunts nicely back to Salazar Slytherin.
[Poll #769471]
Comments welcome.
So, what do we know? Little Hangleton is around 200 miles from Little Whinging. It's rural. There are no other houses locally which are as grand and large as the Riddle House. It's hilly - the Riddle House is on a hill overlooking the village and the Gaunt House is in a copse on the hillside.
Given an error margin of about 25 miles each way, my exceedingly unscientific faffing around with a map suggests a band of possible locations which crosses the north midlands. It includes the northerly parts of Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire and Shropshire, the whole of Cheshire and Devon, the southerly parts of Lancashire and Yorkshire and parts of North Wales. Dismissing the Welsh options, purely on linguistic grounds, that leaves nine possible counties. Personally, I think Norfolk and Devon are unlikely - Norfolk, despite the tenuous fenland connection, is too flat, and Devon is too strongly associated with the Weasleys. I've left both in though, in case anyone feels differently ^_^ Lincolnshire interests me because it contains both hills and fens, which links the Gaunts nicely back to Salazar Slytherin.
[Poll #769471]
Comments welcome.