JCFarnham
Auror
Right, I have a specific image of a location in my mind, and I'm looking for somewhere that would fit the requirements. This is of course a request that could only be answered properly by someone from England [since that's where I'm setting this project], but it doesn't really matter depending on how knowledgable you are.. or think you are I kid, I kid.
What I need is an area of wilderness one could visit in the vacinity of a city like London or similar, similar to Heath or Moorland, or some where between that and a light-medium wooded area. I need such an area to use as the habitat of some Fae in my Faebound project [see brainstorming for more information, but basically Fae cannot live any where with people who don't believe in the supernatural... so pretty much only wilderness, but that can be handwaved if necessary with "large groups of pagans" or something of the sort]. Somewhere you could visit easily but far enough away from civilisation that its just over the "too far to travel, to stay for less than a full day" barrier, is ideal.
I can think of some areas of Hampshire or Essex that might fit the bill.. but I don't want to push distance too far for Train Journeys to come into the picture [if possible] as a lot of travelling may de-rail my plot/ruin suspension of disbelief if done toooo much.
Any ideas?
Since this is Urban Fantasy civilisation needs to be fairly close? I reeeeally want to anchor this in modern Britain with little geographic discrepancies from real life. I could cite "magical dimensions" if I need to, but that might be pushing it for this type of novel. Character could have a car, or use the rail network, or whatever.
EDIT: Examples of equivolent areas in other countries might help me too actually. I haven't written firm location into the setting so far so I coooould migrate it ... with enough research to get around my "write what you know" rule
What I need is an area of wilderness one could visit in the vacinity of a city like London or similar, similar to Heath or Moorland, or some where between that and a light-medium wooded area. I need such an area to use as the habitat of some Fae in my Faebound project [see brainstorming for more information, but basically Fae cannot live any where with people who don't believe in the supernatural... so pretty much only wilderness, but that can be handwaved if necessary with "large groups of pagans" or something of the sort]. Somewhere you could visit easily but far enough away from civilisation that its just over the "too far to travel, to stay for less than a full day" barrier, is ideal.
I can think of some areas of Hampshire or Essex that might fit the bill.. but I don't want to push distance too far for Train Journeys to come into the picture [if possible] as a lot of travelling may de-rail my plot/ruin suspension of disbelief if done toooo much.
Any ideas?
Since this is Urban Fantasy civilisation needs to be fairly close? I reeeeally want to anchor this in modern Britain with little geographic discrepancies from real life. I could cite "magical dimensions" if I need to, but that might be pushing it for this type of novel. Character could have a car, or use the rail network, or whatever.
EDIT: Examples of equivolent areas in other countries might help me too actually. I haven't written firm location into the setting so far so I coooould migrate it ... with enough research to get around my "write what you know" rule
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