There is a Sackville in Karen Wynn Fonstad's atlas, in the
South Farthing. Keeping descriptive place-name suffixes sorted can be confusing, I guess. There is
Buckland, with Brandy Hall. Tookland, but with
Tuckborough (Fonstad's
map has Tuck
burrow!), but then Tookbank. What else: Hardbottle in SF, Nobottle in WF; Longbottom in SF, Willowbottom in EF; Dwaling, Brockenborings, Frogmorton, Whitfurrows, Woodhall and Deephallow in EF; Greenfields, Long Cleeve and Oatbarton in NF; Pincup in SF; Whitwell, Waymeet, Tighfield, Gamwich, Needlehole, Little Delving,
Michel Delving, Overhill and Bywater in WF. and pretty much at the center of
the Shire, not far from the Three Farthing Stone, and also from the border to the Northfarthing,
Hobbiton. Makes it
the quintessential
Hobbit … er, yes, town. Ancestral home of
the Baggins. Almost to the Shire what the house of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was to 19th-century Europe: they were related by marriage to just about everybody. Queen Victoria's husband and Prince Consort Albert was of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and through their children the spaghetti-plate of European royal interrelations got
really complicated. Not to Bagginses,
Tooks, Brandybucks and the like, piece of cake for them …
