Place

England

Also known as our world, London, Cambridge

The ordinary-world setting from which the human visitors come. Time passes differently between England and Narnia, and passages between them appear in many forms.

This encyclopedia follows the whole story. Plot details from all seven chronicles may appear below.

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In the chronicles

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The Magician's Nephew22 cited passages⌄

Chapter I · paragraph 2…ould only make your mouth water in vain. And in those days there lived in London a girl called Polly Plummer.Open passage →
Chapter I · paragraph 14"London isn't a Hole," said Polly indignantly. But the boy was too wound up to take any notice of her, and he went on--Open passage →
Chapter II · paragraph 32…ean box contained something that had been brought from another world when our world was only just beginning."Open passage →
Chapter II · paragraph 34… in another world--I don't mean another planet, you know; they're part of our world and you could get to them if you went far enough--but a really other world--another Nature--another universe--s…Open passage →
Chapter III · paragraph 58…s about them, and they could see St. Paul's and knew they were looking at London. But you could see through the walls of all the houses. Then they could see Uncle Andrew, very vague and shadow…Open passage →
Chapter IV · paragraph 35…s, very tall (but every figure in that room was taller than the people of our world), with a look of such fierceness and pride that it took your breath away. Yet she was beautiful too. Years afte…Open passage →
Chapter V · paragraph 16…s were dead black, either ebony or some black metal which is not found in our world. They were fastened with great bars, most of them too high to reach and all too heavy to lift. He wondered how …Open passage →
Chapter V · paragraph 53"Oh--oh--our world. I d--didn't know you wanted to go there."Open passage →
Chapter VI · paragraph 14… fairly took one's breath away. In Charn she had been alarming enough: in London, she was terrifying. For one thing, they had not realised till now how very big she was. "Hardly human" was wha…Open passage →
Chapter VII · paragraph 11"Jiminy!" he said. "She's loose in London. And with Uncle Andrew. I wonder what on earth is going to happen now."Open passage →
Chapter VII · paragraph 16… see her. And, if possible, she must not be allowed to go rampaging about London either. Digory had not been in the drawing room when she tried to "blast" Aunt Letty, but he had seen her "blas…Open passage →
Chapter VIII · paragraph 1…f the cross-bars of the lamp-post. If she had lost some magical powers in our world, she had not lost her strength; she could break an iron bar as if it were a stick of barley-sugar. She tossed h…Open passage →
Chapter VIII · paragraph 37…ingle stars, constellations, and planets, brighter and bigger than any in our world. There were no clouds. The new stars and the new voices began at exactly the same time. If you had seen and hea…Open passage →
Chapter IX · paragraph 27…ng you please. They'll cost nothing, and I can sell 'em at full prices in England. I shall be a millionaire. And then the climate! I feel twenty years younger already. I can run it as a health …Open passage →
Chapter IX · paragraph 35…ut an animal. The moles came out just as you might see a mole come out in England. The dogs came out, barking the moment their heads were free, and struggling as you've seen them do when they a…Open passage →
Chapter X · paragraph 7… are their way of laughing and which, of course, no one has ever heard in our world. They tried at first to repress it, but Aslan said:Open passage →
Chapter X · paragraph 57…t the air of that young world was really doing the old gentleman good. In London he had been far too old to run: now, he ran at a speed which would have made him certain to win the hundred yar…Open passage →
Chapter XI · paragraph 52…, he looked younger and nicer, and more like a countryman and less like a London cabman.Open passage →
Chapter XI · paragraph 58…e Cabby. "If my wife was here neither of us would ever want to go back to London, I reckon. We're both country folks really."Open passage →
Chapter XIV · paragraph 5…the sharpness and cunning and quarrelsomeness which he had picked up as a London cabby seemed to have been washed away, and the courage and kindness which he had always had were easier to see.…Open passage →
Chapter XV · paragraph 7…le Andrew now awake) came tumbling into the noise, heat, and hot smell of London.Open passage →
Chapter XV · paragraph 15And just as the Witch Jadis had looked different when you saw her in our world instead of in her own, so the fruit of that mountain garden looked different too. There were of course all sort…Open passage →

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe6 cited passages⌄

Chapter I · paragraph 1…ry is about something that happened to them when they were sent away from London during the war because of the air-raids. They were sent to the house of an old Professor who lived in the heart…Open passage →
Chapter V · paragraph 46… he knew so little about--was so old and famous that people from all over England used to come and ask permission to see over it. It was the sort of house that is mentioned in guide books and e…Open passage →
Chapter X · paragraph 29…but that is how beavers talk when they are excited; I mean, in Narnia--in our world they usually don't talk at all.Open passage →
Chapter X · paragraph 35…ly in Narnia, you see pictures of them and hear them talked about even in our world--the world on this side of the wardrobe door. But when you really see them in Narnia it is rather different. So…Open passage →
Chapter XII · paragraph 7…omen there and Well-Women (Dryads and Naiads as they used to be called in our world) who had stringed instruments; it was they who had made the music. There were four great centaurs. The horse pa…Open passage →
Chapter XVI · paragraph 11…ing all over his honest ugly face, (giants of any sort are now so rare in England and so few giants are good tempered that ten to one you have never seen a giant when his face is beaming. It's …Open passage →

Prince Caspian8 cited passages⌄

Chapter I · paragraph 1…d years; but when they came back through the door and found themselves in England again, it all seemed to have taken no time at all. At any rate, no one noticed that they had ever been away, an…Open passage →
Chapter I · paragraph 42… they go bad. You've got to remember it's a good deal hotter here than in England and we've been carrying them about in pockets for hours." So they got out the two packets and divided them into…Open passage →
Chapter II · paragraph 68…Stag. It must have got lost when we blundered back into that other place--England, I mean."Open passage →
Chapter III · paragraph 6…, Peter," said Lucy, "look here. I know I can't swim for nuts at home--in England, I mean. But couldn't we all swim long ago--if it was long ago--when we were kings and queens in Narnia? We cou…Open passage →
Chapter III · paragraph 13…f years have gone past in Narnia while only one year has passed for us in England?"Open passage →
Chapter VIII · paragraph 9…what makes it feel so queer is that in the stories it's always someone in our world who does the calling. One doesn't really think about where the Jinn's coming from."Open passage →
Chapter IX · paragraph 4…se as a Queen in Narnia she had gone to bed much later than as a child in England. And there they were--at least, three of the summer constellations could be seen from where she lay: the Ship, …Open passage →
Chapter X · paragraph 7…urse, if the children had attempted a journey like this a few days ago in England, they would have been knocked up. I think I have explained before how Narnia was altering them. Even Lucy was b…Open passage →

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader9 cited passages⌄

Chapter I · paragraph 35…urs. If you spent a hundred years in Narnia, you would still come back to our world at the very same hour of the very same day on which you left. And then, if you went back to Narnia after spendi…Open passage →
Chapter II · paragraph 50…st land they knew, and that they had no more power of sending him back to Cambridge--which was where Uncle Harold lived--than of sending him to the moon. After that he sulkily agreed to put on th…Open passage →
Chapter X · paragraph 5…ut of her open window and the lawn outside looking very like somewhere in England. She got up and dressed and tried to talk and eat ordinarily at breakfast. Then, after being instructed by the …Open passage →
Chapter X · paragraph 20… changed and Lucy, still beautiful beyond the lot of mortals, was back in England. And Susan (who had always been the beauty of the family) came home from America. The Susan in the picture look…Open passage →
Chapter XIV · paragraph 19"In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas."Open passage →
Chapter XV · paragraph 11Long afterwards when she was back in England and talked all these adventures over with Edmund, they thought of a reason and I am pretty sure it is the true …Open passage →
Chapter XV · paragraph 59"Our world is," said Edmund. "But is this?"Open passage →
Chapter XVI · paragraph 65"What!" said Edmund. "Is there a way into Aslan's country from our world too?"Open passage →
Chapter XVI · paragraph 67…h, Aslan," said Lucy. "Will you tell us how to get into your country from our world?"Open passage →

The Silver Chair13 cited passages⌄

Chapter I · paragraph 79…r hand and pulled her through the door, out of the school grounds, out of England, out of our whole world into That Place.Open passage →
Chapter I · paragraph 80…u don't quite take in at the first hearing--than birds' songs ever are in our world. Yet, in spite of the singing, there was a sort of background of immense silence. That silence, combined with t…Open passage →
Chapter II · paragraph 62… and stockings and pretty thick shoes; it had been a muddy sort of day in England.) She came out lower than she had gone in; and as soon as she did so she noticed something which, I suppose, sh…Open passage →
Chapter III · paragraph 3… about one in every five was human. The rest were things you never see in our world. Fauns, satyrs, centaurs: Jill could give a name to these, for she had seen pictures of them. Dwarfs too. And t…Open passage →
Chapter III · paragraph 74"Oh, dry up! Don't keep interrupting. And when you're back in England--in our world--you can't tell how time is going here. It might be any number of years in Narnia while we're hav…Open passage →
Chapter IV · paragraph 27…of them. I know it sounds hard to believe, but people don't grow older in our world at the same speed as they do in yours. And what I want to say is this, that I'm the King's man; and if this par…Open passage →
Chapter VIII · paragraph 57…t of the world, and the giants' hunting is done on foot; like beagling in England. The hounds also were of normal size. When Jill saw that there were no horses she was at first dreadfully disap…Open passage →
Chapter X · paragraph 27"One thing I'd like to know," said Puddleglum, "is whether anyone from our world--from up-a-top, I mean--has ever done this trip before?"Open passage →
Chapter X · paragraph 36… and far apart that they would hardly have done for scattered cottages in our world. But the little bits of the place which you could see by the lights were like glimpses of a great sea-port. You…Open passage →
Chapter XII · paragraph 23…he Witch's instrument.) Jill couldn't remember the names of the things in our world. And this time it didn't come into her head that she was being enchanted, for now the magic was in its full str…Open passage →
Chapter XV · paragraph 19…ren't throwing them at the dancers as silly boys might have been doing in England. They were throwing them through the dance in such perfect time with the music and with such perfect aim that i…Open passage →
Chapter XV · paragraph 31… moon and the huge stars overhead (Narnian stars are nearer than stars in our world) and with kind, merry faces all round them, one couldn't quite believe in Underland.Open passage →
Chapter XVI · paragraph 62…y down amid the gap he had made in the wall and turned his golden back to England, and his lordly face towards his own lands. At the same moment Jill saw figures whom she knew only too well run…Open passage →

The Last Battle16 cited passages⌄

Chapter II · paragraph 56…ere the trees of gold and of silver had once grown and where a child from our world had once planted the Tree of Protection--a broad lane had already been opened. It was a hideous lane like a raw…Open passage →
Chapter IV · paragraph 5… Beasts of that sort are bigger than the dumb beasts of the same kinds in England.)Open passage →
Chapter V · paragraph 25… were born. But the Rings had all been buried in the garden of a house in London (that's our big town, Sire) and the house had been sold. So then the problem was how to get at them. You'll nev…Open passage →
Chapter VI · paragraph 1…go. It is one of the effects which Narnian air often has on visitors from our world.Open passage →
Chapter VI · paragraph 6… It was Jill who set them right again: she had been an excellent Guide in England. And of course she knew her Narnian stars perfectly, having travelled so much in the wild Northern Lands, and c…Open passage →
Chapter VIII · paragraph 35…ordinary times. And then I hope they'll go on for ever and ever and ever. Our world is going to have an end some day. Perhaps this one won't. Oh, Jewel--wouldn't it be lovely if Narnia just went …Open passage →
Chapter IX · paragraph 22…all we just vanish and never be heard of any more? Or shall we be dead in England?"Open passage →
Chapter IX · paragraph 24…re to be found! Or if they found two--I mean, if we're dead over there in England."Open passage →
Chapter X · paragraph 36…ises you might hear from any angry or frightened old Tom in a backyard in England. And the longer he caterwauled the less like a Talking Beast he looked. Uneasy whimperings and little sharp squ…Open passage →
Chapter XIII · paragraph 1…aint yellow or purple or glowing red of fruits such as no one has seen in our world. The fruit made Tirian feel that it must be autumn: but there was something in the feel of the air that told hi…Open passage →
Chapter XIII · paragraph 33"Yes," said Queen Lucy. "In our world too, a Stable once had something inside it that was bigger than our whole world." It was the first time she had…Open passage →
Chapter XIV · paragraph 28"Yes and I did hope," said Jill, "that it might go on for ever. I knew our world couldn't. I did think Narnia might."Open passage →
Chapter XV · paragraph 22…oliday," said Eustace. "I bet there isn't a country like this anywhere in our world. Look at the colours? You couldn't get a blue like the blue on those mountains in our world."Open passage →
Chapter XV · paragraph 36…hich has always been here and always will be here: just as our own world, England and all, is only a shadow or copy of something in Aslan's real world. You need not mourn over Narnia, Lucy. All…Open passage →
Chapter XVI · paragraph 12…erself. It was the sort of thing that would have been quite impossible in our world. Even if you hadn't been drowned, you would have been smashed to pieces by the terrible weight of water against…Open passage →
Chapter XVI · paragraph 38"Why!" exclaimed Peter. "It's England. And that's the house itself--Professor Kirk's old home in the country where all our adventures began!"Open passage →

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