Editing The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (section)

===Landscape of Cheshire===
Like many of Garner's books the novel is set in the real landscape of Cheshire, in this case focused around [[Alderley Edge]], and features fictional characters interacting at genuine sites such as the sandstone escarpment of [[Alderley Edge#The Edge|the Edge]], the Wizard's Well, the open mine pits, and the Beacon."<ref name="Philip 26">[[#Phi81|Philip 1981]]. p. 26.</ref> Literary critic Neil Philip would later relate that "this sense of a numinous, sacred potency in landscape" was something that imbued all of Garner's work.<ref name="Philip 27">[[#Phi81|Philip 1981]]. p. 27.</ref>

In a 1968 article Garner explained why he chose to set ''The Weirdstone of Brisingamen'' in a real landscape rather than in a fictional realm, remarking that "If we are in [[El Dorado|Eldorado]], and we find a [[Mandragora (demon)|mandrake]], then OK, so it's a mandrake: in Eldorado anything goes. But, by force of imagination, compel the reader to believe that there is a mandrake in a garden in Mayfield Road, Ulverston, Lancs, then when you pull up that mandrake it is really going to scream; and possibly the reader will too."<ref name="Philip 25">[[#Phi81|Philip 1981]]. p. 25.</ref>

Some features of the Cheshire landscape mentioned in the story are:
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*[[Alderley Edge]]
*St. Mary's Clyffe
*[[Alderley Edge#The Edge|The Edge]]
**Castle Rock
**Holy Well
**Stormy Point
**Iron Gates
**Druid Stones
**Old Quarry
**Golden Stone
**The Wizard Inn
**West Mine
*Highmost Redmanhey
*Radnor Wood
*[[Alderley Park|The Parkhouse]]
*Dumville's Plantation
*[[Monks Heath]]
*Sodger's Hump
*Bag Brook
*Marlheath
*[[Capesthorne Hall]]
*[[Redesmere]]
*Thornycroft Hall
*Pyethorne Wood
*[[Gawsworth]]
*[[Danes Moss]]
*[[Macclesfield Forest]]
*[[Shutlingsloe|Shuttlingsloe]]
*Piggford Moor
*[[Cleulow Cross|Clulow Cross]]
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