''There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some years back…'' The Noble Bachelor (p.295)
Monmouthshire
''…the Abergavenny murder is coming up for trial.'' The Priory School (p.539)
Hampshire
''All over the countryside, away to the rolling hills around Aldershot…'' The Copper Beeches (p.322)
Hampshire
''…the other Mrs. Oldmore and maid, of High Lodge, Alton.'' The Hound of the Baskervilles V (p.692)
Hampshire
''You will find parallel cases […] in Andover in '77…'' A Case of Identity (p.196)
Caernarfonshire
''Carston Castle, Bangor, Wales.'' The Priory School (p.539)
Bedfordshire
''My first move was to get down to his home […] near Bedford…'' The Blanched Soldier (p.1001)
Ulster
''The box had been sent by parcel post from Belfast…'' The Cardboard Box (p.890)
Warks/Worcs/Staffs
''He swears by London, you know, and I by Birmingham…'' The Stockbroker's Clerk (p.367)
Yorkshire
''Then there was Mason of Bradford…'' A Study in Scarlet Ii (p.18)
Gloucestershire
''I had been away from home for three days at Bristol…'' The Boscombe Valley Mystery (p.205)
Cambridgeshire
''I wired to Cambridge to learn if anything had been heard of him there.'' The Missing Three-Quarter (p.624)
Kent
''We shall get out at Canterbury.'' The Final Problem (p.476)
Lanarkshire
''He had been engaged to Miss Edith Woodley, of Carstairs…'' The Empty House (p.483)
Kent
''It's down in Kent, seven miles from Chatham…'' The Golden Pince-Nez (p.608)
Derbyshire
''My father was a school-master in Chesterfield…'' The Man with the Twisted Lip (p.242)
Huntingdonshire
''Chesterton [… has] been explored, and […] proved disappointing.'' The Missing Three-Quarter (p.632)
Warwickshire
''My father had a small factory at Coventry…'' The Five Orange Pips (p.219)
Cheshire
''[My mother] was killed eight years ago in a railway accident near Crewe.'' The Speckled Band (p.260)
Durham
''In the case of the Darlington substitution scandal…'' A Scandal in Bohemia II (p.173)
Derbyshire
''[The missing cyclist] is at present reported from […] Derby…'' The Valley of Fear Ivii (p.806)
Yorkshire
''You remember when the stand fell at Doncaster?'' The Six Napoleons (p.586)
Leinster
''You will observe that this line of boats calls at […] Dublin…'' The Cardboard Box (p.896)
Angus
''Where does the thing come from? From Dundee.'' The Five Orange Pips (p.222)
Norfolk
''…a farmer of that name lived some miles off, in the direction of East Ruston.'' The Dancing Men (p.521)
Sussex
''He has, for many years, lived in a small farm upon the downs five miles from Eastbourne…'' His Last Bow Preface (p.869)
Lothian
''I was placed […] in a comfortable boarding establishment at Edinburgh…'' The Sign of Four II (p.94)
Surrey
''Yesterday evening I went to Esher to fulfil this engagement.'' Wisteria Lodge I (p.872)
Devon
''…I found myself in the corner of a first-class carriage flying along en route for Exeter…'' Silver Blaze (p.335)
Cornwall
''Some particulars of the voyage of the bark Gloria Scott, from her leaving Falmouth…'' The 'Gloria Scott' (p.380)
Hampshire
''He had […] been returning from Fareham in the twilight…'' The Five Orange Pips (p.222)
Surrey
''Now, Miss Violet, what has happened to you, near Farnham, on the borders of Surrey?'' The Solitary Cyclist (p.527)
Sussex
''…he bought a small place called Woodman's Lee, near Forest Row, in Sussex.'' Black Peter (p.560)
Essex
''…in Essex, I believe, not far from Frinton.'' The Retired Colourman (p.1117)
Gloucestershire
''Her husband was once mayor of Gloucester.'' The Hound of the Baskervilles V (p.692)
Kent
''…many a time a job has taken him as far as Gravesend…'' The Sign of Four VIII (p.123)
Surrey
''…we shall all be justified when we see the tenants of High Gable at the next Guildford Assizes.'' Wisteria Lodge II (p.887)
Essex
''Those are the lights of Harwich I suppose.'' His Last Bow Epilogue (p.974)
Cornwall
''My brothers! […] They are taking them to Helston.'' The Devil's Foot (p.959)
Herefordshire
''We still have time to take a train to Hereford, and see him to-night?'' The Boscombe Valley Mystery (p.209)
Cambridgeshire
''…Histon [… has] been explored, and […] proved disappointing.'' The Missing Three-Quarter (p.632)
Sussex
''…send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.'' The Five Orange Pips (p.220)
Caithness
''A draghound will follow aniseed from here to John o' Groats…'' The Missing Three-Quarter (p.633)
Berwickshire
''You may have some recollection of the death of Mrs. Stewart, of Lauder in 1887.'' The Empty House (p.494)
Surrey
''I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at twenty past…'' The Speckled Band (p.259)
Leicestershire
''[The missing cyclist] is at present reported from Leicester…'' The Valley of Fear Ivii (p.806)
Sussex
''This is a big thing for me to handle, and I'll hear of it from Lewes if I go wrong.'' The Lion's Mane (p.1086)
Lancashire
''Only last night we had news that the couple had been hunted down in Liverpool…'' The Priory School (p.541)
Middlesex & co.
''…I naturally gravitated to London…'' A Study in Scarlet Ii (p.15)
Kent
''He was drowned last month when bathing near Margate.'' The Veiled Lodger (p.1101)
Hampshire
''…proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the Army.'' A Study in Scarlet Ii (p.15)
Cheshire
''They took tickets for New Brighton.'' The Cardboard Box (p.900)
Northumberland
''One was Theophilus Johnson, and family, of Newcastle…'' The Hound of the Baskervilles V (p.692)
Sussex
''…then we must make a cross-country journey to Newhaven…'' The Final Problem (p.476)
Norfolk
''Is there a train to North Walsham tonight?'' The Dancing Men (p.517)
Norfolk
''...Inspector Martin from Norwich has just passed through.'' The Dancing Men (p.517)
Nottinghamshire
''[The missing cyclist] is at present reported from […] Nottingham…'' The Valley of Fear Ivii (p.806)
Cambridgeshire
''…Oakington [… has] been explored, and […] proved disappointing.'' The Missing Three-Quarter (p.632)
Oxfordshire
''…he himself has been to Eton and Oxford.'' The Red-Headed League (p.186)
Surrey
''…late last night an arrest was effected in connection with the Oxshott murder.'' Wisteria Lodge II (p.880)
Worcestershire
''I'm a Worcestershire man myself, born near Pershore.'' The Sign of Four XII (p.144)
Hampshire
''…the honeymoon would be passed at Lord Blackwater's place, near Petersfield.'' The Noble Bachelor (p.289)
Devon
''Surely I met you in Plymouth at a garden-party some little time ago…'' Silver Blaze (p.342)
Hampshire
''…landed a month later on Portsmouth jetty.'' A Study in Scarlet Ii (p.15)
Devon
''Then fourteen miles away the great convict prison of Princetown.'' The Hound of the Baskervilles III (p.684)
Berkshire
''It is a little place […] within seven miles of Reading.'' The Engineer's Thumb (p.278)
Cornwall
''We were a family of tin-miners at Redruth…'' The Devil's Foot (p.958)
Surrey
''My old friend, Colonel Hayter […] had now taken a house near Reigate in Surrey…'' The Reigate Puzzle (p.398)
Surrey
''I went for a charming walk [...] to a pretty little village called Ripley…'' The Naval Treaty (p.466)
Herefordshire
''Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in Hertfordshire.'' The Boscombe Valley Mystery (p.203)
Fife
''…'Rosythe,' and a score of others.'' His Last Bow Epilogue (p.973)
Kent
''Tunbridge Wells, the nearest place of importance, is ten or twelve miles to the eastward…'' The Valley of Fear Iiii (p.779)
Munster
''…gave serious trouble to the constabulary at Skibbareen…'' His Last Bow Epilogue (p.978)
Hampshire
''I think our next scene of operations must be the […] Adelaide-Southampton line…'' The Abbey Grange (p.645)
Hampshire
''…I yearned for […] the shingle of Southsea.'' The Resident Patient (p.423)
Cornwall
''[Mrs. Porter] would not herself stay [...] another day and was [...] to rejoin her family at St. Ives.'' The Devil's Foot (p.959)
Wiltshire
''We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be there in twenty minutes.'' The Boscombe Valley Mystery (p.207)
Devon
''Tavistock itself lies two miles to the west…'' Silver Blaze (p.336)
Cambridgeshire
''This should be the village of Trumpington to the right of us.'' The Missing Three-Quarter (p.634)
Staffordshire
''[Miss Violet Hunter] is now the head of a private school at Walsall…'' The Copper Beeches (p.332)
Cambridgeshire
''…Waterbeach [… has] been explored, and […] proved disappointing.'' The Missing Three-Quarter (p.632)
Munster
''You will observe that this line of boats calls at […] Waterford…'' The Cardboard Box (p.896)
Hampshire
''…five miles on the far side of Winchester.'' The Copper Beeches (p.319)
Berkshire
''…Windsor, whence [Holmes] returned with a remarkably fine emerald tie-pin.'' The Bruce-Partington Plans (p.931)
Surrey
''…we found ourselves among the fir-woods and the heather of Woking.'' The Naval Treaty (p.449)
Yorkshire
''Here is a photograph of the [Stapletons] taken in York four years ago.'' The Hound of the Baskervilles XIII (p.753)
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Yorkshire
Renfrewshire
Cornwall
Rutland
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