Shortly after they came to a consensus that the dialect was that of the North-West Midlands on the Staffordshire/Cheshire/Shropshire border, Lud’s Church in the Staffordshire Moorlands was suggested by R. W. V. Elliot as one of the key settings for the climax of the poem's story – "The Green Chapel" – in May 1958. Elliot went on to give a scholarly modern explication of most of the local landscape elements in a series of essays in scholarly journals.
Following their agreement that the dialect was from the North-West Midlands on the Staffordshire/Cheshire/Shropshire border, Lud’s Church in the Staffordshire Moorlands was suggested by R. W. V. Elliot as a pivotal location for the poem's climax – "The Green Chapel" – in May 1958. Elliot later wrote scholarly analyses of the local landscape features in a collection of essays published in academic journals.