About 60 miles north of Sarehole (ie, "Hobbiton") there is another
enchanted place -- the area around Macclesfield and Alderley Edge
in Cheshire, scene of a story I thought truly magical,
_The Weirdstone of Brisingamen_.
This site explores the area with pictures and commentary:
http://www.nick-h.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/cadellin/cadellin.htm
"A contemporary of [Tolkien] at Oxford was a local Cheshire man Alan
Garner, his approach was quite different - take a genuine local myth
and build a modern story around it. Where Tolkien's vision is
breathtaking in its scale, Garner's has real resonance because he bases
it in a known and accessible landscape."
"The Legend of Alderley on which the book is based is well established
locally and something you were brought up knowing about,
in it's substance it's of the Merlin genre."
Sean_Q_
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