HomeUnited KingdomA fantasy style map of London. Welcoming your help with historic or interesting locations around the area to include. Hoping to have it finished in the next week or so.
A fantasy style map of London. Welcoming your help with historic or interesting locations around the area to include. Hoping to have it finished in the next week or so.
October 28, 2024
A fantasy style map of London. Welcoming your help with historic or interesting locations around the area to include. Hoping to have it finished in the next week or so.
Apologies if you’ve seen this on FB already – this is the most up to date version.
I’m hoping you can help fill this fantasy style map of London and the surrounding area. Please ignore how rough parts of it look (text going through hills, rivers, etc), it’ll all get tidied up at the end. Trees will be added in at the end too.
While it’s half done, I’d love to get more places and features in here before I get this made into prints. Any more megaliths, standing stones, barrows, ruins, or the like that you think should be on here? Anything else is great too – landmarks, natural features, mythological sites or just anything cool and quirky you think would look good on here. Even just a pretty village you have fond memories of. Let me know and I’ll try and squeeze it in. Thanks!
As a healthcare professional, I may be a bit biased, but I think it would be quite cool to see the Bethlem and Maudsley hospitals on the map.
I am 100% buying this when it’s released. I absolutely love it.
Wow, I’m gonna need a print of this. Amazing detail already!
this is quality. instead of moaning about London prices, feeling lonely despite having no hobbies, etc.
good to see these posts
Epping Forest extends all the way down to Manor Park and Forest Gate.
Angus’ House of Steakke.
Have mentioned at Bart’s above but I’d also say Blackheath for (potentially untrue) plague connotations but also site of Byzantine emperor meeting Henry IV, Wat Tyler’s peasants revolt, association with highwaymen and the first place golf was played in England
Would you consider renaming Newlands to Nunhead in SE London? The history is more grizzly and pertains to the beheading of a nun.
very pedantically Honor Oak unusually has no “u”
Can maybe squeeze in the Royal observatory in Greenwich?
And perhaps Crossness sewage works on the Thames
Great work regardless!
Too hazy to tell but it looks like there is potentially no Vauxhall (a parliamentary constituency and site of London’s oldest river crossing) or Stockwell, but a ‘Patmore’ which is not an area, just a small housing estate.
I could be wrong with the lo-res image, but where did the map names come from?
No bridges?
Battle of Britain bunker in Uxbridge. Churchill spent time there during WW2
This is awesome.
oh god I’m such a moron – I was like “why wouldn’t you include all those areas in the final print??”
Could add St Margaret’s south of Isleworth and All Saints Isleworth to the map.
really cool!
Would pay good money for a Hyrule style Map of London
I realise that this is technically spam for your art, but it’s so good that I don’t care! Looks great.
Osidge is in the wrong place – it is bounded by East Barnet to the NW, Cockfosters to the N, and Southgate to the S.
Guildhall in central would be good to include (given most fantasy works have guilds!) The Greenway in East London which runs from Vicky Park to the Royal Docks at one point was called Sewerbank, and apparently Gandhi walked along it often in the 30s… Also Ian McKellan (aka Gandalf) has a pub in Wapping… just saying…
Why no Angus Steakhouse?
Would you consider doing a more sparsely detailed version? This version is so fabulously detailed it can be daunting to read or find particular things. Either way its amazing.
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Apologies if you’ve seen this on FB already – this is the most up to date version.
I’m hoping you can help fill this fantasy style map of London and the surrounding area. Please ignore how rough parts of it look (text going through hills, rivers, etc), it’ll all get tidied up at the end. Trees will be added in at the end too.
While it’s half done, I’d love to get more places and features in here before I get this made into prints. Any more megaliths, standing stones, barrows, ruins, or the like that you think should be on here? Anything else is great too – landmarks, natural features, mythological sites or just anything cool and quirky you think would look good on here. Even just a pretty village you have fond memories of. Let me know and I’ll try and squeeze it in. Thanks!
As a healthcare professional, I may be a bit biased, but I think it would be quite cool to see the Bethlem and Maudsley hospitals on the map.
I am 100% buying this when it’s released. I absolutely love it.
Wow, I’m gonna need a print of this. Amazing detail already!
this is quality. instead of moaning about London prices, feeling lonely despite having no hobbies, etc.
good to see these posts
Epping Forest extends all the way down to Manor Park and Forest Gate.
Angus’ House of Steakke.
Have mentioned at Bart’s above but I’d also say Blackheath for (potentially untrue) plague connotations but also site of Byzantine emperor meeting Henry IV, Wat Tyler’s peasants revolt, association with highwaymen and the first place golf was played in England
Would you consider renaming Newlands to Nunhead in SE London? The history is more grizzly and pertains to the beheading of a nun.
very pedantically Honor Oak unusually has no “u”
Can maybe squeeze in the Royal observatory in Greenwich?
And perhaps Crossness sewage works on the Thames
Great work regardless!
Too hazy to tell but it looks like there is potentially no Vauxhall (a parliamentary constituency and site of London’s oldest river crossing) or Stockwell, but a ‘Patmore’ which is not an area, just a small housing estate.
I could be wrong with the lo-res image, but where did the map names come from?
No bridges?
Battle of Britain bunker in Uxbridge. Churchill spent time there during WW2
This is awesome.
oh god I’m such a moron – I was like “why wouldn’t you include all those areas in the final print??”
Could add St Margaret’s south of Isleworth and All Saints Isleworth to the map.
really cool!
Would pay good money for a Hyrule style Map of London
I realise that this is technically spam for your art, but it’s so good that I don’t care! Looks great.
Osidge is in the wrong place – it is bounded by East Barnet to the NW, Cockfosters to the N, and Southgate to the S.
Guildhall in central would be good to include (given most fantasy works have guilds!)
The Greenway in East London which runs from Vicky Park to the Royal Docks at one point was called Sewerbank, and apparently Gandhi walked along it often in the 30s…
Also Ian McKellan (aka Gandalf) has a pub in Wapping… just saying…
Why no Angus Steakhouse?
Would you consider doing a more sparsely detailed version? This version is so fabulously detailed it can be daunting to read or find particular things. Either way its amazing.
Love the dragons at airports!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Edward_III_manor_house
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