[HPforGrownups]The Burrow

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 84096

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, John and Peg <notjustone at y...>
wrote:
> Does anyone know where The Burrow may be? In book 2 she starts to
touch on it but I still cannot figure that out.
> 
> John & Peg

bboy_mn:

Well, we don't know for sure because the book doesn't give us enough
information, and JKRowling has only hinted at it's location; she has
never directly confirmed it. The hint was that the name Ottery St
Catchpole was inspired by Ottery St Mary.

It is beleived to be in Devon which is in the southwest of England. I
think the major city in central Devon is Exeter, another major coastal
city in south Devon would be Torquay. In Devon, just north of the
coastal city Sidmouth, is a town called Ottery St. Mary. The Ottery
part, implies that the village is on the Otter River; which it is.
Just outside of Ottery St. Mary is a real historic farm called Burrow
Hill Farm. Burrow Hill Farm does have a website and allow visitors to
the farm, I've been to the site, but couldn't find the link again.
Keep in mind, if you search the web for the Burrow Hill Farm site,
that there is also a Burrow Hill Farm in Somerset, England.

These are all pretty strong clues that Devon is the location. However,
we remember that in one episode of HP series, Molly takes the whole
crew from the Burrow to King's Cross Station in three muggle taxis.
It's over 100 miles (130-140) from Ottery St Mary to central London,
that would make for an extremely expensive taxi ride. Personally, I
think the Ministry picked up the bill for the taxis because they
wanted to protect Harry. Others say this taxi ride would be too
expensive for the Weasleys (remember THREE taxis), and use it as proof
that the Burrow is closer to London.

Side Note: tinyurl.com doesn't seem to be working any more, so I have
used an alternate URL redirection service, makeashorterlink.com . At
either service, simply enter a long web link and it will give you a
short link as a substitute; very convinient.

Maps to location of Ottery St Mary and Burrow Hill Farm-

Ottery St. Mary-
http://www.multimaps.com/map/browse.cgi?X=300000&Y=100000&width=500&height=300&client=public&gride=&gridn=&srec=0&coordsys=gb&addr1=&addr2=&addr3=&pc=&scale=1000000&advanced=&multimap.x=286&multimap.y=166

Alternate link-
http://makeashorterlink.com/?P2C812076


Burrow Hill Farm-
http://www.multimaps.com/map/browse.cgi?X=310000&Y=95000&width=500&height=300&client=public&gride=&gridn=&keepicon=false&coordsys=gb&addr1=&addr2=&addr3=&pc=&advanced=&scale=25000&downright.x=9&downright.y=10

ALternate Link-
http://makeashorterlink.com/?N1E832076

Hope these map links work.

bboy_mn