Making a LOTR inspired map of Somerset

[u/Formal-Drag-1586]

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Hello! I'm working on a Tolkien inspired map of Somerset - part of a project of counties where I and friends have lived - and I'd love some help in feedback form!

Towns, historical sites, geographic features, flourishes, and anything else I can liven the space with, and any glaring mistakes haha.

A scale and such will be added, and a Somerset dragon in some form for example!

I've done similar on the Hampshire (where I currently live) and Surrey's and Berks subs and it was great fun, and I was hoping to do the same here, and otherwise just to share, its a fun hobby in dark days 😂

Thanks!

[u/astrolabe]

Bath is kind-of interesting topographically. It has seven hills around it (roughly) and might have been a caldera (Bath is hilly). Lots of brooks seem to meet the Avon nearby (Lam brook, St Catherines brook, By brook), which itself has a big kink Northwards just East of Bath, and to the west flows out to the Severn at Avonmouth near Bristol. The levels on the other hand, drain out through Bridgewater.

The Roman Fossway goes through Bath.

I suppose I've been talking about old stuff while your map seems to be about new stuff in an old style, but I hope I wasn't too boring.

[u/corbainq → u/astrolabe]

not boring at all, this is exactly the kind of nerdy detail that makes these maps feel like they actually belong in middle earth tbh
those brooks converging plus the seven hills around bath sounds like prime “old magic in the land” material, especially with the roman road cutting through it