A Map of Peterswood
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Bourne End. You can actually see it and Marlow if you stand in the right place!
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Great picture Stephen. Thank you.
Come on everybody, someone must be able to draw a better map of Peterswood than my chronic attempt??!!
Come on everybody, someone must be able to draw a better map of Peterswood than my chronic attempt??!!
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Here's a deal...
I will draw one IF people can give me all the correct positions of houses and locations in relation to each other!
That's the thing that puts me off, as I find Peterswood very sprawling and wonder if places move about for convenience of the stories!
I will draw one IF people can give me all the correct positions of houses and locations in relation to each other!
That's the thing that puts me off, as I find Peterswood very sprawling and wonder if places move about for convenience of the stories!
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I'm sure they do, Rob! One imagines the Hiltons in a detached house, but the garden adjoins that of Lady Candling. Larry and Daisy's house is quite close to the one next door where the bird watching lad can see into his neighbour's house from his bedroom window in "Strange Bundle". Are they semis, I wonder. Any map would probably only be relevant to the story it was illustrating - like the end maps in the Lone Pine series by Malcolm Savile.
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Instead of worrying about logistics, why not do an impressionistic version of Peterswood Rob - use poetic and creative license regarding precise locations - Enid certainly did throughout the history of the series!
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Lol! That's a cop-out!
I did actually draw a 'map' of Peterswood a few years ago when I devised a Find Outers game. I think I still have the board somewhere so maybe that's a good starting point!
I did actually draw a 'map' of Peterswood a few years ago when I devised a Find Outers game. I think I still have the board somewhere so maybe that's a good starting point!
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Try this one for starters:
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I have tried drawing a map, but PowerPoint is not very good for that purpose!
There appear to be two main problems with simply using Bourne End as it is or was:
1 - How do the three parties go home by separate routes from Church Corner? (Spiteful Letters)
2 - How does Ern go from the station to the High Street without going in the direction of Fatty's house? (Hidden House)
Now imagine the station near the bottom right hand corner, and a road coming out of it in a north-westerly direction and soon dividing at Church Corner. Turn right here and you go towards the High Street. Turn left and you go towards the river. Keep straight on and you go towards Fatty's House (this road definitely does not exist in Bourne End!)
Thus from Church Corner the three parties would indeed go in three different directions to get home. Also, when Erm goes from the station to the High Street he is certainly not going in the direction of Fatty's House.
Hope that makes sense.
I believe this modification in the road network is all that is needed. The houses of the participants already identified in the other threads, and by Duncan on his sight, can stay as they are. (Although I think it is debatable whether Highfield Road is a better candidate than New Road for Larry and Daisy's house.)
There appear to be two main problems with simply using Bourne End as it is or was:
1 - How do the three parties go home by separate routes from Church Corner? (Spiteful Letters)
2 - How does Ern go from the station to the High Street without going in the direction of Fatty's house? (Hidden House)
Now imagine the station near the bottom right hand corner, and a road coming out of it in a north-westerly direction and soon dividing at Church Corner. Turn right here and you go towards the High Street. Turn left and you go towards the river. Keep straight on and you go towards Fatty's House (this road definitely does not exist in Bourne End!)
Thus from Church Corner the three parties would indeed go in three different directions to get home. Also, when Erm goes from the station to the High Street he is certainly not going in the direction of Fatty's House.
Hope that makes sense.
I believe this modification in the road network is all that is needed. The houses of the participants already identified in the other threads, and by Duncan on his sight, can stay as they are. (Although I think it is debatable whether Highfield Road is a better candidate than New Road for Larry and Daisy's house.)
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Would love to see what you have produced Splodj - what a great user name too!
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I have a photo of Winter Hill from September 2008 when we walked from Marlow to Bourne End.Rob Houghton wrote:Isn't 'Winter Hill' the other side of the river...as Christmas Hill is in real life?
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Winter Hill is where there is a main TV transmitter near Bolton, Lancs.
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I have included my map again for detailed reference and research Chrissie - I think Winter Hill is marked on it somewhere!Chrissie777 wrote:I have a photo of Winter Hill from September 2008 when we walked from Marlow to Bourne End.Rob Houghton wrote:Isn't 'Winter Hill' the other side of the river...as Christmas Hill is in real life?
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Chrissie has sent me a wonderful pic of Winter Hill - taken when she visited the area.
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I found Winter Hill at the top of your map next to the windmill. I was wondering if that's the same wind mill from the Secret Seven prequel?pete9012S wrote:I have included my map again for detailed reference and research Chrissie - I think Winter Hill is marked on it somewhere!
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Thank you, Pete. I took the photo from the other side of the Thames River when we walked from Marlow to Bourne End at the end of September 2008. It was a very warm day. Lots of day trippers.pete9012S wrote:Chrissie has sent me a wonderful pic of Winter Hill - taken when she visited the area.
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