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British Places — Real or Fictional? - Statistics

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Hint Explanation Answer % Correct
Paddington
 An area of central London, located within the City of Westminster. Real
96%
Sherwood Forest
 A historic forest in the East Midlands of England, remnants of which form a national nature reserve. Real
95%
Elephant and Castle
 An area of the London Borough of Southwark that derives its name from an 18th-century coaching inn. Real
94%
Lizard Point
 The most southerly point of mainland Great Britain, located at the tip of the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall. Real
89%
Portmeirion
 An Italianate-style tourist village in Gwynedd, North Wales. Real
89%
Wookey Hole
 A village in the county of Somerset, home to Wookey Hole Caves. Real
89%
Blaenau Ffestiniog A town in Gwynedd, North Wales, encircled by Eryri (Snowdonia) National Park. Real
86%
Borsetshire
 The county that is the setting for The Archers, a BBC radio soap opera that is the world's longest-running drama. Fictional
85%
Devil's Punch Bowl
 A large natural amphitheatre in Surrey, situated on the county border with Hampshire. Real
79%
Vale of White Horse
 A local government district in the ceremonial county of Oxfordshire, historically part of Berkshire. Real
76%
Mole Valley
 A local government district in the county of Surrey. Real
74%
Midsomer
 The county that is the setting for Caroline Graham's Chief Inspector Barnaby novels, which were the basis for the television series Midsomer Murders. Fictional
73%
Royston Vasey
 A town in the North of England that is the setting for the comedy horror television series The League of Gentlemen. Fictional
70%
Wychavon
 A local government district in the county of Worcestershire. Real
67%
Loch Lochy
 A loch located within Lochaber in the Scottish Highlands. Real
63%
Middlemarch
 A town in the English Midlands that is the setting for George Eliot's eponymous novel, subtitled A Study of Provincial Life. Fictional
62%
Balamory
 The setting for the eponymous children's programme that first aired in 2002, filmed predominantly in Tobermory on the Inner Hebridean Isle of Mull. Fictional
61%
Summerisle
 The remote Hebridean island that is the setting for the 1973 film The Wicker Man. Fictional
59%
Camberwick Green
 The village that is the setting for the children's programme of the same name, the first in the Trumptonshire trilogy. Fictional
58%
Wester Ross
 An area of the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. Real
57%
Weatherfield A town in Greater Manchester that is the setting for the television soap opera Coronation Street. Fictional
56%
Walmington-on-Sea
 A town on England's South Coast that is the setting for the television sitcom Dad's Army. Fictional
54%
Puddletown
 A village in the county of Dorset. Real
53%
Kirrin Island
 A location in the Famous Five series of novels by children's author Enid Blyton. Fictional
47%
Pontypandy
 The setting for the children's television programme Fireman Sam, a portmanteau of the real-life towns of Pontypridd and Tonypandy. Fictional
47%
Akenfield A Suffolk village that is the setting of Ronald Blythe's 1969 book of the same name, subtitled Portrait of an English Village, and the eponymous 1974 film. Fictional
44%
Isle of Struay
 The setting for the Katie Morag series of children's stories by Mairi Hedderwick, based on the island of Coll in the Inner Hebrides. Fictional
42%
Portwenn
 The Cornish village that is the setting of the television series Doc Martin, filmed in the real-life village of Port Isaac. Fictional
29%
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