From The Chronicles of Barsetshire by Anthony Trollope
Barchester is a cathedral town in imaginary Barsetshire of mid-nineteenth century England. Each of the six Barchester novels — beginning with The Warden, and continuing with Barchester Towers, Dr. Thorne, Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington, ending with The Last Chronicle of Barset — takes us to a different part of the county.
Trollope’s names for his people and places in the novels are chimeric and fantastic; Rev. Josiah Crawley, perpetual curate of Hogglestock Parish; Archdeacon Theophilus Grantly, rector of Plumstead Episcopi; the Duke of Omnium to Gatherum Castle; the Rev. Quiverful; the Greshams of Greshamsbury; Lady Julia Guestwick; Sir Raffle Buffle of the Income Tax Office; Lady Scatcherd of Boxall Hill; the Misses Prettyman in Silverbridge; Sir Omicron Pie of London; Sir Raffle Buffle; the Duke of Omnium at Gatherum Castle; Archdeacon Grantly of Plumstead Episcopi;Â and various quaintly names the villages such as Stogpingum, Puddingdale, Eiderdow, Hogglestock; and Crabtree Canonicorum. To name a few.
