This is the kind of land I'd like to visit, along with Giono's Manosque and Faulkner's Mississippi:
It is a landscape of chalk and limestone downland, of low moors and acid heaths, of alluvial valleys, of the New Forest of the Norman Kings and the old cleared forests on heavy clay soils like the Vale of Blackmoor where in Hardy's view "superstitions linger longest."
(Desmond Hawkins, Hardy: Novelist and Poet, 208)
Probably the closest I've ever been to to this landscape is that of the southern Washington state. Yes, including Nirvana's Aberdeen and its environs.
