Newbury

Newbury was a Buckland village, the only one inland from the Brandywine. Before the completion of the High Hay in the25th century, this was a fortified hilltop. The tower on the hill had been taken down; Newbury now consisted of Gorbuck Hall, set into the hillside, and a small surrounding village. Gorbuck Hall had some almost forgotten rooms that served as a Mathom House for artifacts of the wars against the Old Forest. Weapons of slaying effective against huorns and goblins could be found here, as well as flame-charged arrows and tomes and scrolls of spells. A few of the Gorbucks in any generation study the old knowledge in case some threat invaded Buckland from the forest. Precious Gorbuck, the matriarch of the family, was one of the few overt nature worshippers left in the Shire. She talked to a small fir tree (a stunted huorn) in her garden, and it occasionally answered back.