A-Z of Fictional Places

[Lindum]

We did this a while back but there's lots more we didn't mention. Any place, house, village, town, county, country or whatever in any medium.

A - Amity Island. Fictional Island located off the coast of New England which featured in the 1974 novel and in the various films of the Jaws franchise.

 

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Well, I don't recall doing it at all! My memory isn't what it was!

B BLANDINGS Castle - in stories by PG Wodehouse where Lord Emsworth resides.

 

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C - Cold Comfort Farm. Isolated farm set in the fictional village of Howling in Sussex is the setting and title of Stella Gibbons 1932 comic novel. A 1995 TV adaptation starred Kate Beckinsale, Joanna Lumley, Rufus Sewell, Ian McKellen and Eileen Atkins.

 

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D DANNETH - A city located on the planet Uguard, in the Alpha quadrant in Star Trek.

 

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E - The Emerald City. Capital city of the Land of Oz and first described in Frank Baum's novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz published in 1900.

 

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F FLOREAN Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour - in Diagon Alley from Harry Potter.

 

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G - Gormenghast. Name of castle in Mervyn Peake's fantasy trilogy, Titus Groan, Gormenghast and Titus Alone.

 

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H - HAPPY VALLEY - supposedly situated in Yorkshire. Sarah Lancashire was an amazing police sergeant!

 

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I - Innsmouth is a fictional town in Massachusetts that features in a number of books by H P Lovecraft.

 

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J JESTEFAD - a large gas planet from Star Wars

 

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K - Kirrin. Kirrin Cottage, Kirrin Bay and Kirrin Island all feature in The Famous Five books by Enid Blyton.

 

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L LAZYTOWN - a children's educational TV series from Iceland.

 

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M - Midsomer. Fictional English county with a high murder rate that features in the long-running TV series Midsomer Murders.

 

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N NIGHTSIDE - series of books by Simon R Green and is a hidden world in London where supernatural and science fiction super-technology co-exist and where it's always 3am.

 

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O - Oceania. Fictional totalitarian state that is the setting for George Orwell's novel 1984.

 

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P PRENTISSTOWN - where Todd Hewitt is the only boy in the 'Chaos Walking' books by Patrick Ness.

 

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Q - Quahog. Fictional New England town that is the setting for the animated sitcom, Family Guy.

 

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R - Rockadelphia
City in the Flintstones (parody of Philadelphia)

 

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S SUMMER BAY - fictional town where Home and Away is set.

 

[Lindum]

T - The Three Cripples. Public house that was Bill Sikes local in Dickens' novel Oliver Twist. Apparently based on a real pub in Saffron Hill called The One Tun.