Smickett Springs

The village itself where the story takes place, Smickett is a small (and mostly boring) village at the South of London. Most people don't know about it just because nothing important happens ever in it. As the world has getting caught in the Industrial Revolution during the last century, this village has stayed mostly out of it, apart from that crazy man that lives in the mechanical house at the border of the place, and for the fact that just as the man died there's a company trying to buy half the village including his house, to build a train rail through it, not even with a station.

Geography

Smickett Springs is located between a group of small hills, a place nice enough for a spring to form (hence its name) that supplies the nearby villages too. That's the most important thing it has.
Most of the village is leveled, made of just a few clumps of buildings accross the valley, with the Mechanical House at the border of its domain, far away from the other houses and a little more elevated than the rest. The well is in the center of the valley creating a small lake and then streaming out into the North, probably to the Thames. No one has really decided to ever confirm it, because they've lost the stream somewhere and it wasn't that important to find it again.

Fauna & Flora

The place is very usual, with an elm and oak forest, some maples and pines... the only notable thing is the abnormal quantity of birches around the Mechanical House.
There is a couple of flowers endemic from the lake, and Eric's grandfather had created a new variety of apple that's somehow blueish.
About the animals, there's not much, apart from the bunnies, pigs, hens and sheep that the Crowley family has on their farm, at the other side of the valley.

Natural Resources

The main known natural resource is the water spring that's in the center of the valley. The huge cave full of quartz and moonstone where the Lents live is just unknown, but maybe not for too much more time...

Alternative Name(s)

Tha boring village

Type

Valley