One very small point of information - not, I trust, plot-bunny-boiling - there is actually a moor just a few miles north of Oxford. It's called Otmoor, I don't know if Lewis knew it at all but Tolkien certainly did. It certainly isn't the moor behind Experiment House, though, as it's a sunken moor, not a raised one (this makes it Very Rare Habitat, and since I lived in the area they've turned it into a bird reserve; http://www.rspb.org.uk/reserves/guide/o/otmoor/index.aspx. Quite right too). Whether or not Lewis knew it, I'd like to think Richard, Digory and Polly were regular visitors at one time, if only because they really ought to have met Makareti Staples-Brown, who lived on the edge of the moor until her death in 1930.
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One very small point of information - not, I trust, plot-bunny-boiling - there is actually a moor just a few miles north of Oxford. It's called Otmoor, I don't know if Lewis knew it at all but Tolkien certainly did. It certainly isn't the moor behind Experiment House, though, as it's a sunken moor, not a raised one (this makes it Very Rare Habitat, and since I lived in the area they've turned it into a bird reserve; http://www.rspb.org.uk/reserves/guide/o/otmoor/index.aspx. Quite right too). Whether or not Lewis knew it, I'd like to think Richard, Digory and Polly were regular visitors at one time, if only because they really ought to have met Makareti Staples-Brown, who lived on the edge of the moor until her death in 1930.