Re: Where is Bigland?


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Posted by Peter H on October 17, 2008 at 17:01:46 user Peter_H.

In Reply to: Re: Where is Bigland? posted by Elizabeth on October 17, 2008 at 23:21:22:

If AR meant anywhere by "Bigland", I suggest it might be Cartmel. AR knew the Cartmel area very well indeed. I don't know how many pubs Cartmel has now, but there may have only been one in 1930. Cartmel is "away beyond the foot" of either lake. ". . he was off to Bigland this morning, walking over the fell". Well, the Furness Fells would have to be walked over, and perhaps Bethecar Moor. " . . .what his old dad might be seeing at Bigland besides the hound trail". There has always been hound trailing at Cartmel, and there still is. " . . the church down by Bigland". Slight problem there, as the "church" at Cartmel is Cartmel Priory, a large, ancient and well-known building, and would it have been referred to casually as "the church at Cartmel"? I don't know.

If AR did change the name of Cartmel to "Bigland", then it would have been for the same reason that he changed Oxenholme to "Strickland Junction". The reason puzzles me. AR might have wanted to avoid giving away the exact location of the story, but in that case why did he make it so clear that "Kanchenjunga" is Coniston Old Man? Maybe it was just "writer's instinct" - Bigland and Strickland sound right, and they don't tie the story down too much.




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