I have finally got around to finalising the updated version of my Campbell Country map that’s been sitting on my desktop for months.
The changes are pretty minor – basically just tweaks to fix a few discrepancies uncovered by a re-read of the source material. Brichester for instance only has one train station, located in Lower Brichester, Temphill is surrounded by woods, and there’s actually a road running out to the Devil’s Steps. There are also some carvings in the woods near Castle Morley – I think that’s it.
Anyway, here ’tis!
For info on my cartographic process see Brichester and Parts Beyond.
EDIT: And of course – the universe being perhaps not quite as bleak and hostile as Lovecraft thought but still a thorough pain the posterior – no sooner do I publish this updated map than I discover more geographic detail. “Brichester Lake”, the favoured abode of Gla’aki, should actually be named “Deepfall Waters”.
I discovered this fact courtesy of Justin Alexander over at The Alexandrian, who has come up with a fantastic solution to the limited geography of the Vale of Berkely that simply never occurred to me despite the puzzle pieces lying in plain sight.
This is a great resource, thank you! I’m currently writing some ‘weird acadmia’ based in Goatswood, do you have some idea around acreage of the forest on your map?
Thanks!
The scale of anything on the map is problematic because there simply isn’t room for Campbell Country in the real world location that Mr Campbell placed it in. I deliberately didn’t include a scale on the map because of this, but a few back of the envelope calculations can be done to come up with something usable.
I’ve assumed that the distance between Goatswood and Temphill is about 5km (3.1 miles). Based on that, the woodlands from the bottom edge of the map up to Temphill cover about 56km². That adds up to about 13,838 acres.
That can be adjusted by altering the distance between Goastwood and Temphill. Every km between the towns equals 2,767 acres, or every mile 4,464 acres.
I hope that’s useful, and always remember that any oddities in the geography of the Severn Valley can be attributed to the Tomb Herd beneath Temphill messing with the local dimensions!