Wonderland is the setting for Lewis Carroll's 1865 children's
novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. In the story, Wonderland is located
underground, and Alice reaches it by travelling down a rabbit hole, possibly on
the banks of the Thames between Folly Bridge and Godstow. While the location is
apparently somewhere beneath Oxfordshire, Carroll does not specify how far down
it is, and he has Alice speculate whether it is near the center of the earth or
even at the Antipodes. The land is heavily wooded and also grows mushrooms.
There are well-kept gardens and substantial houses, such as those of the
Duchess and the White Rabbit. Wonderland has a seacoast, where the Mock Turtle
lives.
