Opening in the fictitious village of Midmeddlecum, evidently in contemporary rural England, it features two girls whose father is absent during a war.

Accordingly, the town is often cited as partial inspiration for the fictitious village of Llareggub in Under Milk Wood.

The Algarvians in the paly weia off to harass some other fictitious village: the sort of relief Gromheort wanted to see but never would.

Fethering is a fictitious village on England's south coast (adjacent to Tarring).

Set in Ewedown, a fictitious village in Dorset, England.

The first part, Akapulco, takes place in a fictitious Swiss village in Mexico around 1920-1930.

(Orzeszkowa did not put the emphasis on Polish Catholicism and deprived her fictitious village of a priest).

Maranchara is a small fictitious coastal village.

The novel is set in Thachanakkara, a fictitious village and has the central character named Jithendran.