The Traveller's Guide to Fairy Sites

The Traveller's Guide to Fairy Sites examines reported fairy locations across England, Wales and Scotland, bringing together local landscapes, folklore and accounts of encounters. Janet Bord focuses on places where the traditions are tied to identifiable sites rather than treating fairy belief as detached from geography.

Entries consider locations associated with fairy sightings, stories and other supernatural traditions, with information intended to help identify the places concerned today. The book presents these accounts as folklore and reported experience, while showing how hills, woods, stones and other features became connected with fairy activity. It offers a regional guide to the surviving traces of fairy belief in the British landscape.