Talk:Duncton Wood

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[edit] The Book vs The Series

I would like to either split the original Duncton Wood novel out into its own stand-alone page (along with one for each of the other books), or leave this as the novel's page, and create a seperate page for the entire series. Qorvus 23:11, 20 January 2007 (UTC)Qorvus

[edit] Location

Who says Duncton Wood is in West Sussex? I think that there is a real place called Duncton in W.Sussex which has many trees, but the later books make me think that D.W. is in the Oxford area. Anyone know for certain? -- SGBailey 22:38, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Decidedly I don't know for certain but my ten-year-old recollection of the novels says the same as you. I'd have to re-read them in detail to decide - but my first thought is that Duncton is too close to the Uffington horse to be Sussex, even West Sussex. They're on my list of things to re-read now ... --JennyRad 00:36, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Geographically speaking, Duncton Wood cannot be in West Sussex. If that was the case it would be south-east of all of Moledom. By using both the map shown in the book, and by finding the actual geographical locations of places like Avebury, Rollright and Fyfield and, of course, the Thames, the Wood must be near central Oxfordshire, on the north side of the Thames. And in case you are wondering, here are some of the other locations: Whern - Whernside, a mountain in the Yorkshire Dales; Wharfe - a small hamlet near the border of north and west Yorkshire; Dark Peak and Bleaklow moor - Dark Peak (obviously); Cannock - Staffordshire; Siabod - most likely refers to Moel Siabod in North Wales; Caer Caradoc - Shropshire (the books description is quite accurate); Fyfield - Wiltshire; Uffington, Seven Barrows, Buckland - In and around the White Horse district. I cannot remember every location in the books (for instance I can't remember the name of the place where Rooster grew up, just that it was somewhere between Dark Peak and Beechenhill), but this is most of them and all of them are key. --ja1young 21.00, May 31st, 2007

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