Borsetshire
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Borsetshire is a fictional county in the BBC Radio 4 series The Archers. Its county town is the equally fictional Borchester.
Other places in the county include Ambridge, where The Archers is mainly set, Lower Loxley, a nearby village and Felpersham, a cathedral city which appears to be larger than Borchester. Ambridge is on the B3980 six miles south of Borchester and seventeen miles west of Felpersham. Ambridge lies in the valley of the River Am below Lakey Hill from which the Malvern Hills may be seen in fine weather.[1]
Fictional rivers in the county include the River Mercer, the River Perch and the River Am. There is also a fictional Felpersham Canal.
The county is supposedly set between Worcestershire and Warwickshire, but is also intended as a generic West Midlands rural county. Its name also echoes Barsetshire, and the names of the county and county town resemble Dorset and Dorchester.
The BBC map of Borsetshire shows most road numbers beginning with "1", which would place it in East Anglia, although some roads begin with "4" (appropriate to its apparent location in the West Midlands), "3", which would place it in the West Country, and even "9", which would place it in north-east Scotland.
Borsetshire Blue is the name of a fictional cheese made by Helen Archer in the programme.
[edit] References
- ^ Donovan, Paul (1991) The Radio Companion. London: Grafton; pp. 8-11
