Based on everything we know about Derry, the town at the centre of Stephen King's IT novel and HBO's new IT: Welcome to Derry prequel series, it's pretty much the last place in the world you'd want to visit .

But could you actually visit it, if you chose to? Is Derry a real town? We've broken down everything that's known about Pennywise's base of operations below.

Is Derry in IT: Welcome to Derry a real town?

The short answer is no. Derry is, thankfully, a fictional place created by King — but if you wanted to visit its inspiration, you'd need to go to Bangor, Maine in the U.S.

This is the town where the horror master was living when he wrote his novel — a note at the end of IT says King started writing the book in Bangor in 1981 and finished a little over four year

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