British Places — Real or Fictional?

Can you guess whether these places really exist or if they are from works of fiction?
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Elephant and Castle
An area of the London Borough of Southwark that derives its name from an 18th-century coaching inn.
Middlemarch
A town in the English Midlands that is the setting for George Eliot's eponymous novel, subtitled A Study of Provincial Life.
Lizard Point
The most southerly point of mainland Great Britain, located at the tip of the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall.
Weatherfield
A town in Greater Manchester that is the setting for the television soap opera Coronation Street.
Devil's Punch Bowl
A large natural amphitheatre in Surrey, situated on the county border with Hampshire.
Wychavon
A local government district in the county of Worcestershire.
Paddington
An area of central London, located within the City of Westminster.
Wookey Hole
A village in the county of Somerset, home to Wookey Hole Caves.
Summerisle
The remote Hebridean island that is the setting for the 1973 film The Wicker Man.
Portwenn
The Cornish village that is the setting of the television series Doc Martin, filmed in the real-life village of Port Isaac.
Loch Lochy
A loch located within Lochaber in the Scottish Highlands.
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.
Pontypandy
The setting for the children's television programme Fireman Sam, a portmanteau of the real-life towns of Pontypridd and Tonypandy.
Puddletown
A village in the county of Dorset.
Walmington-on-Sea
A town on England's South Coast that is the setting for the television sitcom Dad's Army.
Borsetshire
The county that is the setting for The Archers, a BBC radio soap opera that is the world's longest-running drama.
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.
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.
Royston Vasey
A town in the North of England that is the setting for the comedy horror television series The League of Gentlemen.
Wester Ross
An area of the Northwest Highlands of Scotland.
Portmeirion
An Italianate-style tourist village in Gwynedd, North Wales.
Vale of White Horse
A local government district in the ceremonial county of Oxfordshire, historically part of Berkshire.
Camberwick Green
The village that is the setting for the children's programme of the same name, the first in the Trumptonshire trilogy.
Sherwood Forest
A historic forest in the East Midlands of England, remnants of which form a national nature reserve.
Mole Valley
A local government district in the county of Surrey.
Blaenau Ffestiniog
A town in Gwynedd, North Wales, encircled by Eryri (Snowdonia) National Park.
Kirrin Island
A location in the Famous Five series of novels by children's author Enid Blyton.
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.
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Level 81
Jan 25, 2026
Although Summerisle (all one word) is fictional, there is a Scottish archipelago called Summer Isles, in Wester Ross near Ullapool.