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This is an island of rolling hills and mountains, forests and swaps. All right, that's nice; where is which?
Mountains
The Pennine Mountains
These form the spine of the Isle, from the north down to the midlands. They stop just noth of where the island gets wide.
The Cambrian Mountains
These cover most of what the Aenglish call Wales; the wide southwestern penninsula. They're very pointy, treacherous, and even worse, filled with Welshmen.
The Pictish Highlands
These form even more craggy and dangerous slopes, but hardly any of the Aenglish will ever have to worry about this, because they are all the way up in northern Alba, and barely anyone even goes as far as southern Alba. Well, except Picts and clergymen trying to convert them. But no, you know, "normal" people.
Forests
A fair amount of the island is forested. Actually, a lot of it is forested. Tell you what, let's just move on to the bits that aren't.
Marshes
Unless you are a low-class fisherman or a peat-gatherer or something, you probably want to avoid the marshy lands. They'll swallow you whole, break horse's legs, and the stench is awful. Plus marsh gas does some really odd things to the unprepared. Expect a lot of mystical visions, put it that way.
The Wash
Much of the land around the bay between East Anglia and Mercia is a big o'l swamp. Go around it.
The Humber
There's quite a marshy area in the basin of the River Humber as well. This is the Vale of York. It's not all swamp; York itself, the capital of Northumbria, is on firm ground. But keep to the roads.
Glastonbury
Along the southern bank of the mouth of the Severn is pretty soggy, and inland along the Parrett River are the wetlands of Glastonbury. This is the location of the Isle of Avilion.
The Thames
The mouth of the Thames River inland a ways is ill-defined. The marshy area comes up to about the old Roman city of Londinium, which is more or less just a fishing village by a ruin these days.
The Coasts of East Anglia, Kent, and Sussex
There are marshy bits here and there along the coast. Get a map before you plan any secret meetings with the French or anything.
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The Walls Hadrian's Wall and the Antonine Wall are left over from the days of the Roman Empire. They were built to hold back the native Britons and Picts, and after the withdrawal of the actual Romans, were of some good use to the remaining Romanized Britons. These days Hadrian's Wall is mostly in ruin. Its east half bisects Northumbria and its west half bisects the Strathclyde Region, so it's pretty useless as a north-south border. it is, however, an excellent source of well-cut stone. The Antonine Wall, on the other hand, still forms the southern border of Alba (Pictland), so is maintained as well as possible by the Britons in Strathclyde.
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