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Quiz about Norah Lofts Country
Quiz about Norah Lofts Country

Norah Lofts Country Trivia Quiz


Many of Norah Lofts' novels were set in and around the fictional town of Baildon. What do you remember about this little slice of England?

A multiple-choice quiz by agony. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
agony
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
256,849
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
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Avg Score
7 / 10
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Question 1 of 10
1. What part of England is Baildon in, anyway? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. What is the name of the seaport that serves Baildon? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. There are several villages that serve as settings to the novels. Which of these is NOT a Baildon-area village? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. What is the name of the wood, near to Baildon? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Many of the books take place in 'great houses' in the area. Which house is the family seat of the Hattons? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. One family that features in many books, but never really has a book of its own, is the Fennels. What is their family seat? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Family traits come up often in the books, running true to form throughout the generations. The members of one family are notorious gamblers. Which one? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. The Webster family started off ("The Town House") as wool merchants, but took up as innkeepers in the Tudor era. What is the name of their inn? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. There are various different firms of lawyers in Baildon, over the years, but one firm carries out the legal work of area families more than any other. What is the name of Baildon's longest running law firm? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. We know that the devil came to Clevely once ("Afternoon of an Autocrat") but what else was once situated there? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. What part of England is Baildon in, anyway?

Answer: Suffolk

Almost all of Lofts' English novels were set in East Anglia, most in south Suffolk. The 'real' nearby city most often mentioned is Colchester. Baildon is said to be patterned after Bury St Edmonds.
2. What is the name of the seaport that serves Baildon?

Answer: Bywater

Books of this sort need a handy seaport, and Bywater is mentioned in almost every book. This is where Ethlereda Benedict first meets civilization, in "The House at Old Vine", and Sir Godfrey's brother, William, is the Bishop of Bywater, in "Knight's Acre".
3. There are several villages that serve as settings to the novels. Which of these is NOT a Baildon-area village?

Answer: Raveloe

Raveloe comes from another sort of book entirely, George Eliot's "Silas Marner".
4. What is the name of the wood, near to Baildon?

Answer: Layer Wood

The wood is spread out like a six fingered glove, with great houses at the points and in the hollows, and footpaths and short cuts all through.
5. Many of the books take place in 'great houses' in the area. Which house is the family seat of the Hattons?

Answer: Mortiboys

The history of the place goes back to before the Norman invasion - in "Jassy" Barney Hatton tells us the story of how it was named:
"The owner of the place at that time, called upon to be William's liege or to surrender the place, 'refused with many oaths,' and when the day of reckoning came, opposed, with his little force of house-carls, the mounted knights. At sunset he was surrounded in the only spot which remained to him - a woodsman's hut in the centre of the woods. There, with the last three of his men dead about him, he set fire to the hut and died within the flames. And the Normans were sufficiently impressed by his performance to name the place Morte de Bois, which name upon the tongues of the common Saxon people was eased down to Mortiboys."

Later legend tells that the wife of this Saxon, newly pregnant, visited the Norman lord, and "enthralled him with her sorrow and beauty" so he married her. Later, when the Tudor-era Hattons acquired the place as a gift from Henry VIII (the owners had been Catholics) the first Hatton married the daughter of the original, Norman, family.
6. One family that features in many books, but never really has a book of its own, is the Fennels. What is their family seat?

Answer: Ockley

Fennels are mentioned in most of the books, and play some part in several ("Jassy", "Nethergate" and "Bless This House" come to mind) but so far as I can tell, there is no book set at Ockley.
7. Family traits come up often in the books, running true to form throughout the generations. The members of one family are notorious gamblers. Which one?

Answer: Hattons

Mortiboys itself passes to the Helmars at one point, when the Chris Hatton of the time gambles it away. My favorite gambling Christopher Hatton is "Gentleman Johnny", Felicity's father, in "The House at Sunset".
8. The Webster family started off ("The Town House") as wool merchants, but took up as innkeepers in the Tudor era. What is the name of their inn?

Answer: The Hawk in Hand

The One Bull is the tavern in "A Wayside Tavern", the Pot of Flowers is where Davy Armstrong first starts to go bad ("The House at Sunset") and the Fleece is the inn where Hester Roon was born ("Hester Roon").

The Hawk in Hand was a base of Royalist sympathy, during the Civil War.
9. There are various different firms of lawyers in Baildon, over the years, but one firm carries out the legal work of area families more than any other. What is the name of Baildon's longest running law firm?

Answer: Turnbull

It is a Turnbull who gets a glimpse of Rupert Hatton's will and learns that Felicity will be a rich woman some day. His hastily arranged Fleet marriage to her does him no good, however; she ends up seeing through his plan. ("The House at Sunset")

The "strange strain" in the Old Vine family has its final appearance in Felicity's tale; the queer wanderer whom she finally marries has the familiar name - Rancon.
10. We know that the devil came to Clevely once ("Afternoon of an Autocrat") but what else was once situated there?

Answer: Convent

Maude Reed spends some time here, in "The Town House" and Josiana Greenwood also finds refuge here ("The House at Old Vine"). The Clevely syrup, a painkilling poppy extract, plays a pivotal role in the final scene of "The House at Old Vine".
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