Weston-supra-Mare/Percy/Prior Incantato/Snape was with Voldemort/Map of Devo

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 145424

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" <catlady at w...> 
wrote:
>
> Sandy Straubhaar wrote in
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/144960 :
> 
> << P. G. Wodehouse (as in Jeeves & Wooster) used lots of bizarre
> English town names in his stories, but ... I _think_ ... they are all
> real,like Weston-super-Mare >>

Catlady:
> This list used to have an active poster, IIRC named Mary Ann
> MacCloudt, who lived in Weston-supra-Mare. IIRC she said it was a
> boring place.


Geoff:
If this was the correct name of her town, then it isn't the same place. I live in West 
Somerset and Weston-SUPER-Mare is a large coastaln North Somerset, about 40 miles 
away.

Dreamofwriting wrote in
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/145278 :
> 
> << I just uploaded a map picture; I didn't get the title on it
> properly, it just says gif...it's on the last page of the photos. I
> got the pic from a map of England on the internet. It shows in Devon:
> Ottery St. Mary's, and there is a Burrow Hill Farm and a place labeled
> Pottery, this is just so coincidental? Well, I thought it was
> interesting and maybe if I do get to England I will take myself a
> little drive to Ottery St. Mary's and have a look around, just for
> kicks! >>
> 
> And it is near Exeter University where JKR was a student. From
> previous discussion, I seem to recall that there is also a Stokes 
> Hill or Stokeshead Hill in the area (cf Stoatshead Hill). Adding
> stoats and weasels to otters makes it sound very mustelid. Oh, and a
> town named Chudleigh, presumably the namesake of Ron's Chudley Cannons.

Geoff:
Ottery St.Mary (no apostrophe 's') is about 8 miles east of Exeter, about 3 miles north of 
the coastal resort of Sidmouth and takes its name from the river Otter.

Just to the north of Exeter is the village of Stoke Canon and the district of Exeter which lies 
between them is Stoke Hill. I have a friend who lives in Stoke Hill.

Chudleigh lies about 5 miles south-west of Exeter roughly halfway between Exeter and 
Newton Abbot