Places from books you wish you could visit

Another one for Manderley ??

I had forgotten Thackers - and I didn't know it really existed - thanks, TheCountess! And I could go and stay there with a real Blue Peter presenter - wow!

Has anyone mentioned Thackers from A Traveller In Time, aka the farmhouse in Derbyshire where Simon Groom from Blue Peter lives and which his dw and he run as a B&B?

I thought I'd been to Swallowdale but I've just remembered, it was a valley that dh thinks is Swallowdale and no-one else does rather than the one with the cave
Must go to cave!

SDTG, Wild Cat Island is very doable. It's close to the shore (and near a carpark) so you can get to it with only the most basic of boats, if you're not up for swimming! And then, of course, you can go and have tea on the terrace at Brantwood (Ruskin's house) and watch the Gondola chugging up and down the lake

OMG Occams! It sounds amazing - I can't believe Peter Duck's cave actually exists too!!

Lancre, and ankh morpork, obviously
The Shire
Diagon Alley
Avonlea
The Valley of Adventure
The version of london inhabited by Becky Bloomwood of the shopaholic books (to give her a slap)
Book world from the Thurdsday Next series. (Of course then I could visit All The Books, preferably in the company of Miss Havisham)

The Happy Isles of Oceana by Paul Theroux. I really need to visit the South Pacific now.

Pesto - it was ace!

We had already walked up Coniston Old Man during the day, and then we decided to go and have a look at Swallowdale. Of course there isn't really one place that's agreed as Swallowdale but I found a thread online that suggested one possible location so we went to have a look.

I just did some googling and I think it was this thread.

Anyway that was where we went because I recognise the car park and sheep enclosure on google earth from our photos.

It has a stream, waterfall, Peter Duck's cave and it's a beautiful walk. Our plan was to walk up and check it out and then go back for the tent and camp there. We were on a mission to tick off DD's 50 Things to do before you're 11 3/4. It is quite a walk up though and after the walking we'd done that day we didn't have energy left to go back up with our camping gear, so we actually wild camped on Old Man near the car park where we only had to walk 5 mins with the tent.

I would love to camp in Swallowdale or on Wildcat Island (although I'm sure that's not encouraged)

What was Swallowdale like Occams ? I would love to find it and explore all the places in the Arthur Ransome books. They were my absolute favourites!

Fictional worlds -

Pern - I would love to Impress a dragon - or even fly on one as a passenger.

The Discworld - to meet Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, and the City Guards of Ankh Morpork.

Hogwarts and Diagon Alley.

Non-fictional:

Many of the locations Nora Roberts uses - Alaska, New England, Maine, Ireland - the list is endless.

I have visited some of the Arthur Ransome Lake district locations (and seen some of the boats that inspired the stories - in a museum there, iirc) - but I would like to visit the actual island that the Swallows camped on.

The cornish coastline - from Rosamund Pilcher, and other authors.

The Bernese Oberland - location of the later Chalet School stories - and some of the places that they went to visit - the Falls of Rhine, Geneva - and many others I can't remember (not enough coffee in my system yet).

Dh and I once tried to find the location where the murder took place in Five Red Herrings, by Dorothy L Sayers - we got pretty close, but since I had not thought to bring the book with me on holiday - and we couldn't find a copy up there, on the day when we went looking (this was way before the days of kindle and google, sadly) - we didn't find the exact location - I would love to go back sometime, and visit all the locations in the book.

Sounds lovely Occams
We did the Old Man on the same trip too. I would love to swim round the island, like John does in the first book - I had a swim later that day but it wasn't warm enough to do a circuit.

oh yes! marmaduke scarlet and all.

Countess - Me and dd swam to wildcat island! It was during the heatwave we had about 3 years ago. She was only 9 but she wore a swimming vest and we took a body board so if she got cold she could get on it. It was a brilliant adventure. We also sailed round it but were too scared to try to land. On the same trip we climbed kanchenjunga (Coniston old man), wild camped and walked up to what is reported to be swallowdale. It was brilliant.

She's now obsessed with the hunger games. I don't plan to recreate that.

I'd like to go to the netherfield ball.

Maybe we can sneak into the grand tea party with all the geraniums in the parlour?

Fiction you say?? Are there some people who think it's made up?

niminypiminy yes! I didn't mention that because I knew that I'd be too big to get in through the tiny door. Never mind, I could take tea and peppermint lozenges with Miss Heliotrope, before she married the parson...
Do you not feel that Loveday Minette is the friend waiting for you just out of sight?
The truth is, I'm not sure its fiction at all....

I longed to go to Amalfi after reading Lorna Hill 's Rosanna Joins the Wells. I did and it was just as she described it. And Loch Awe, which was in another Wells book - (someone will remind me). Just fab.

Italy in Enchanted April
Spain in any Hemingway novel
Prince Edward Island
New York as recreated by Ed McBain
And, yes, the magic faraway tree.

Narnia and Lothlorien.

mrstwee - snap! and Maria's round bedroom at the top of the tower!

Reminded by LauraChant's name, the farm in The Changeover - would love to visit that house.

Moonacre - perhaps especially the gatehouse where Loveday Minette lived.

Narnia, yy. Especially the beginning of Prince Caspian.

How has no one said the red room of pain? Just me then?

Would love to go to the March house from Little Women and Pemberley to visit Elizabeth and Darcy. Also Mole's house from Wind inthe Willows

Where Maria Merryweather lived. Moonacre?

The Faraway Tree. Would love a go on Moon-Face's slippery slip!