Hexford

Hexford Village, (AUDIO: The Stuff of Nightmares ^[+]Loading...["The Stuff of Nightmares (BBC audio story)"]) also called Happenstance Village, (PROSE: Mrs Frimbly's Festive Diary ^[+]Loading...["Mrs Frimbly's Festive Diary (short story)"]) was a village in Sussex. (PROSE: To: 'The Doctor' ^[+]Loading...["To: 'The Doctor' (short story)"], AUDIO: Tsar Wars ^[+]Loading...["Tsar Wars (audio story)"]) Hexford Woods bordered the village, separating Hexford from the nearby Darkholmes; Darkholmes and Hexford shared a newspaper. (AUDIO: The Broken Crown ^[+]Loading...["The Broken Crown (audio story)"]) Little Hodcombe was also near Hexford. (AUDIO: And You Will Obey Me ^[+]Loading...["And You Will Obey Me (audio story)"])

One of the Doctor's houses, Nest Cottage, was located there, (AUDIO: The Stuff of Nightmares ^[+]Loading...["The Stuff of Nightmares (BBC audio story)"], Tsar Wars ^[+]Loading...["Tsar Wars (audio story)"], et al.) though by one account, the cottage was known as Baker's End (PROSE: Mrs Frimbly's Festive Diary ^[+]Loading...["Mrs Frimbly's Festive Diary (short story)"]) and owned by Tom Baker. (PROSE: Bafflement and Devotion ^[+]Loading...["Bafflement and Devotion (short story)"], The Story of Fester Cat ^[+]Loading...["The Story of Fester Cat (novel)"]) Other locations in the village included a village green, a mini-market, a church, (AUDIO: Tsar Wars ^[+]Loading...["Tsar Wars (audio story)"], et al.) a rectory, the White Hart, (AUDIO: The Broken Crown ^[+]Loading...["The Broken Crown (audio story)"]) the Hexford Village Hall, Cod Almighty, and the Dragon Pub. (AUDIO: The Hexford Invasion ^[+]Loading...["The Hexford Invasion (audio story)"])

The Fourth Doctor's TARDIS became temporarily stuck in the village after the Demon stole components from its spatial geometer. During this period, the TARDIS could still travel through time. (AUDIO: The Relics of Time ^[+]Loading...["The Relics of Time (audio story)"], et al.)

The Fifth Doctor encountered the Reborn Master in Hexford in 2016. (AUDIO: And You Will Obey Me ^[+]Loading...["And You Will Obey Me (audio story)"])

Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]

The village where Nest Cottage is located goes unnamed in Hornets' Nest and Demon Quest, with the name "Hexford" first appearing in Serpent Crest. In 2010, between the releases of Hornets' Nest and Serpent Crest, Paul Magrs wrote an unlicensed comic called The Housekeeper published in VWOORP! VWOORP! magazine which named the village "Darkholmes". The second story of Serpent Crest, The Broken Crown, mentions Darkholmes as being a neighbouring village to Hexford. When Magrs reused Darkholmes in the novel Fellowship of Ink, he introduced Hexford College as a location in the village. In Magrs' Baker's End series, Nest Cottage is referred to as Baker's End, with the village being known as Happenstance Village. While the series isn't currently a valid source on this Wiki, one valid source does use these alternate names.