Somerset Fairy Places
Blackdown Hills
ST 212179
This is the site of a famous fairy market. The first sighting was recorded in the early 17th by Richard Bovet in Pandaemonium or the Devil's Cloyster. He claimed a man riding over Blagdon. He saw a fair which at the time he thought was Churchstanton fair however when he got closer he found they had vanished from his view. He could however feel that he was in a throng of people. When he arrived home he felt pain and became paralysed from which he never recovered.
Cow Castle
SS 795374
The fairies are believed to have built this Iron Age hillfort in order to protect themselves. They appear as lights.
Glastonbury Tor
ST 512386
The tor is thought to be a gateway into the fairy world or underworld.
Goblin Combe
Here lies another access to the fairy world although only when the fairies deem it to be open. Once a girl who was collecting primroses and became lost and separated from her friends. She feared she would never find her way home and threw her flowers down. As they hit the rock the doorway opened and the fairies appeared to her. They looked after her and gave her a gift of a golden ball before guiding her home.
A local man heard the story and hoping to gain some fairy treasure for himself went out picking primroses and threw them against the rock. The fairies were not pleased and dragged him into the rock and he was never seen again.
Stoney Littleton, Willow
ST 735572
This is a chambered long barrow
Wick Barrow, Wick Moor
Also known as Pixies Mound
ST 209456
A farm labourer heard crying as he passed by the mound. He found a broken child's spade, he repaired it and said "There 'tis then -never cry no more" before continuing on his way. Days later he passed by and the spade was gone and a freshly baked cake. He ate it calling out "Goodnight to ee" and he was prosperous thereafter.
Worlebury Hill
ST 325625
This is a wooded hill in which lies a 10 acre Iron Age hillfort and dewponds known as fairies wells.