It is rare that I am blown away by the mainstream press, but
The Londonist has achieved something
truly extraordinary. They have created a map of fictional locations and they
have gathered hundreds. The map displays a geographical area roughly parallel
with real life Great Britain Isle
of Man where Thomas the tank engine and the other sentient railway
vehicles of Rev. W Awdry's books is set. Some places cannot be mapped like the
mysterious vanishing and reappearing Scottish village
of Brigadoon East Midlands central to The Obscurati Chronicles. Evan's Land contains other fictional
towns and villages in North Wales such as Llangeri,
Nantmawr, Llanigmur and Nagelluw. There are many other real places in the story
that I have changed in size and nature. I have done the same to Rockall. This
is a real island in the Atlantic , but I have changed it
in my novel of that name into a much larger land five miles across. I post my
adjusted map below.
There was a comic strip in the sixties which was probably in the Beezer or the Topper which featured a village from about the seventeenth century which had been isolated from the mainland by marshland in which the inhabitants would have various adventures nipping back and forth between the centuries. Similar to Brigadoon. I don't know what it was called or where it was, although I suspect Suffolk or Lincolnshire.
ReplyDeleteIt might be worth contacting The Londonist, Claire. They're constantly updating their map. I've told them about the places I've invented.
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