A medieval journey
AndyStaples
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It's on the graphic design end of the CC3 community, I know.
I recently found copies of the first two volumes of James E. Thorold Rogers’ A History of Agriculture and Prices in England (the first two volumes cover 1259-1400).
I found a rather terse description of this journey on page 614 of volume 2, in a section offering miscellaneous exerpts of political and social life. I made the map to help visualise the journey.
The background is built from USGS GTOPO30 data, imported into Fractal Terrains, coloured using the Terraformer add-on.
I then brought the map into Campaign Cartographer 3 as a PNG and added the locations, borders and all the other vector stuff.
The highlighted locations are where the travellers stopped for the night; other locations are those mentioned on the journey.
The journey took a total of seven days, because the travellers rested for an extra day in Thirsk.
Comments
Looks like the traveller was in a hurry on the last day of his journey. Me made good time from Thirsk to Ponteland.