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two rivers, Taiglin and Sirion, not wholly unlike, in their relative courses
here, that of the Sow and the Trent at Great Haywood (I. 396).*

(* Gilfanon's house, the House of the Hundred Chimneys, stood near the
bridge of Tavrobel (I. 174-5), where two rivers, Gruir and Afros, joined (II.
284, 287). I noted (I. 196 note 5) the possibility that there was, or is, a house that
gave rise to Gilfanon's; and it has been pointed out to me by Mr G. L. Elkin,
Acting Director of the Shugborough Estate, who has kindly supplied me with
photographs and a detailed map, that Shugborough Hall, the home of the Earls
of Lichfield and now the property of the National Trust, is near the end of the old
packhorse bridge (called the Essex Bridge) which crosses the rivers at their
confluence, and that the chimneys of the mansion are a prominent feature. It
seems very likely that it was my father's sight of the great house through the trees
and its smoking chimneys as he stood on the bridge that lies, in some sense,
behind the House of the Hundred Chimneys in the old legend. Mr Elkin has
further suggested that the High Heath or Heath of the Sky-roof, where the great
battle was fought, so that it became the Withered Heath (II. 284, 287-8), might
be Hopton Heath (where a battle of the Civil War was fought in 1643), which lies
a few miles to the North-west.)