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Laying aside the considerations of contemporary myths such as that of Deep England, there are a number of distinctive mythical folk heroes and legends, many of which have their roots steeped in the vestiges of historical fact: King Arthur, Hereward the Wake, Robin Hood, the lost land of Lyonesse.
There is a great deal of regional vegetation, and this reflects the historical sense of geographical separation which pre-existed today's transport systems. In Cornwall, for example, there are a number of faery species including the pixies, sometimes known as piskeys, and the spirits of the mine-shafts, the knocker s, and these are known nowhere else in England. On Dartmoor, a traveller thought to have gone astray on the moor was said to have been 'pixie-led'.