Forum:Where are the two Human Natures set?

Can anyone tell me what county the two Farringhams from NA: Human Nature and DW: Human Nature/The Family of Blood are in?

While it seems as conclusive as can be without buying the long-out-of-print and sixteen-year-old book that the one in the novel is set in Norfolk, I'm getting contradictory points on the wiki about the TV version.

Farringham (which only speaks from a TV point of view) tells me that the TV version is in Herefordshire, as does Herefordshire itself, while Farringham School for Boys (a television-exclusive subject) says it's in Norfolk as does Norfolk, which is on the other side of the country. I've not read the New Adventure book, but I don't recall anywhere in the Human Nature or The Family of Blood episodes stating the county name. Was I just not paying attention? Tybort 00:22, July 14, 2011 (UTC)
 * Except you can't assume that at all. The school could just have the name Farringham, without it necessarily being in Farringham.   Or it might be that, in the DWU, Farringham isn't in Herefordshire. All we know is Farringham.  Nothing more. Like you, I'm almost positive the episode doesn't indicate the county at all, so we really can't either.


 * The book definitely says the town is Farringham (p. 15) is within cycling distance of Shellhamptom (p. 170 — but I'm pretty sure Shellhampton is totally fictitious) and that it was within an unnamed country that had fire brigades (p.247).   But the county is not specifically named.  That said, I suppose Norfolk is implied as the county, because the lads who go off to the Great War are said to be in the "Ninth Batallion of the Norfolk Regiment", and there are many references of "the Norolks" as a way to describe those ex-soldiers, such as, "The Norfolks who'd fought in the Great War had a yearly reunion in the city (by which the author means Norwich)."  I'd say there probably is enough in the book to make the common sense reading that, at least inasmuch as the book version is concerned, to make the book's Farringham be in Norfolk.  Of course, the book isn't set at Farringham School for Boys at all, so there's no way to really transfer info from the book to cover really anything geographic about the episode.   00:39:11 Fri 15 Jul 2011


 * As I said, I have no easy access to the book and am only assuming based on information off the wiki itself. Though my primary question remains: where did the "Herefordshire" bit come from? It doesn't seem to be based on anything at all in the DWU canon, as I don't recall a county name (or, as CzechOut stated, town name outside of that of the name of the school) in the series 3 story. The Farringham page (and any related links pertaining to Human Nature/The Family of Blood) probably need a complete do-over then. Tybort 23:12, July 15, 2011 (UTC)