Posted by Duncan on March 12, 2012 at 08:21:10 user Duncan.
In Reply to: Re: Belle Grange as another possible Beckfoot posted by roger Wardale on March 12, 2012 at 07:19:33:
Oh I agree - Allan Tarn is Octopus Lagoon, and the reeds by the river look just right. I suppose what I can't escape (put perhaps I should!) is that Ransome stuck a big river mouth / bay on the north-west flank of his lake, close to where there happens to be something superficially similar on Windermere. And then I think it was in one of your books where I read that Evgenia had advised people to drift around Windermere near the Pull Wyke area if they wanted to find many of the locations from Swallows and Amazons. I know there is a good potential Darien near there, but what else do you think she might have been referring to? Shark Bay perhaps? These of course play havoc with my semi-geographical approach...