Editorial standards

What counts, and how we check it.

The Erotic Map of Britain charts places where desire — romantic, scandalous, sacred or simply human — demonstrably shaped the story of the place. Every entry states plainly whether it is documented history, literary fiction tied to a real location, or folklore and tradition. We never dress legend as fact: where a story is contested, the entry says so and cites the scholarship.

Verification

Locations are pinned to five-decimal coordinates where a heritage authority documents them — Historic England's National Heritage List, Cadw and Coflein for Wales, Historic Environment Scotland and Canmore, the Northern Ireland listings, and Ordnance Survey grid references. Each entry carries a coordinate confidence score out of five; anything at 3 or below is an honest estimate, labelled with how we would tighten it.

Sources

Every hook traces to named, checkable publishers — no source on this map has been invented, and where we could not verify a claim we either removed it or downgraded the wording. Entries list their sources in full.

Scope and ethics

This is a celebration of love, desire and scandal — not of harm. Stories centred on violence or victims are outside our scope. The register is frank, literary and historical, never graphic. Several sites are private property or working churches: visit with the courtesy the stories deserve.

Corrections

Write to marquis@marquisdemayfair.com with a better source, a tighter coordinate or a challenge to a claim. Corrections are reviewed against the sources and applied.