The Marches (Cheshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire and Worcestershire) are so named because they formed the medieval border with Wales. The Marches were consequently a dangerous area. It was also an area that was both influenced by Wales and that had a substrata of Welsh culture: there are many more Welsh or British Celtic placenames than in the Midlands, for example. Naturally, the fairies there share certain features with the Welsh fairies to the west.

March Fairy Places

The Fairy Throne (Kenchester)

March Fairy Sightings

Blind Fairies (Bristol)

March Fairy Tales

Fairies and Money (Herefordshire)

Fairy Books

Allies, Jabez The British, Roman and Saxon antiquities and folklore of Worcestershire (London: J.R. Smith, 1856)

Prince, Albertine The Remains of Folklore in Shropshire (University of Wisconsin 1915)