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Jane Austen routinely did what it sounds like you want to do: she kept the big places intact (London, Bath), but the estates mentioned in her stories (e.g. Pemberly) are fictional, with only their ...
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2019-12-12T21:57:23Z (almost 5 years ago)
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2019-12-08T09:06:07Z (almost 5 years ago)
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Jane Austen routinely did what it sounds like you want to do: she kept the big places intact (London, Bath), but the estates mentioned in her stories (e.g. Pemberly) are fictional, with only their general location given. The estate was fictional, but culturally it was set in its time, in England, which is all that she needed. Similarly, you can invent a village, and not bother too much with precise distances and where exactly it should be on the map. Pemberly _could have_ existed, so could your village. In fact, I believe this was a common way of writing at the time.
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2018-06-13T08:55:43Z (over 6 years ago)
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