Traveller's Guide to Fairy Sites: The Landscape and Folklore of Fairyland in England, Wales and Scotland
Concentrating on places that are identifiable and able to be visited today, the sources drawn on range from traditional folklore to modern first-hand sighting reports. The entries give precise locations, including Ordnance Survey map references. All the different types of Little People are represented. They are mostly not the pretty winged fairies that appear in children's picture books. Real fairies can be frightening. By reading these stories and travelling to the fairy sites, the reader...
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Concentrating on places that are identifiable and able to be visited today, the sources drawn on range from traditional folklore to modern first-hand sighting reports. The entries give precise locations, including Ordnance Survey map references. All the different types of Little People are represented. They are mostly not the pretty winged fairies that appear in children's picture books. Real fairies can be frightening. By reading these stories and travelling to the fairy sites, the reader will gain a sense of what it is to inhabit that Otherworld of the fairies.
General county guide mapviIntroduction1England9Cornwall12Devon24Dorset30Somerset36Southern England - Berkshire, Hampshire, London, East and West Sussex, Wiltshire44Eastern England - Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Suffolk54East Midlands - Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire62West Midlands - Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Warwickshire, West Midlands, Worcestershire68North Midlands - Cheshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire76Lancashire (including Merseyside)84Yorshire - East, South, West, North92Cumbria104Durham and Northumberland (including Tyne & Wear)110Isle of Man118Wales127Gwynedd (including Anglesey)130Conwy146North-East Wales (Denbighshire, Flintshire, Wrexham)154Powys166South-West Wales (Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire)174South Wales (Glamorgan, Monmouthshire)184Scotland191Dumfries & Galloway (including Ayrshire)194Scottish Borders (including Lothians and Edinburgh)200North-East Scotland (Aberdeenshire, Moray, Angus) with Perth & Kinross206Argyll & Bute with Stirling212Highland (South) (including Skye)220Highland (North)234Western Isles240Orkney and Shetland Islands246AppendixNote on St Collen255Bibliography259Sources260Index279
