http://londonist.com/2011/02/hand-dr...ge=3#gallery-1
Take a look at the above article and map. It shows in some detail the area around London before those pesky Normans arrived and turned everything a little bit French.
The full map is extremely detailed and could provide an invaluable campaign tool for anyone setting a Cthulhu Dark Ages game in the area. Wish they had named the person who drew the map, they deserve much credit.
"You forget, I was present at an undersea, unexplained, mass sponge migration"
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That is an awesome map. Thanks for the linky.
~Clangador (Reader of things by H.P. Lovecraft)
Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal... H.P. Lovecraft, "The Tomb"
Seconded, that map tickles all my special places
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Note also the link at the bottom of the page to underground London which would make for a very interesting Cthulhu campaign set in the late 20th/early 21st century.
Nice, but Wemble lea !
Nice Old English/Saxon translator website http://www.oldenglishtranslator.co.uk/
Grove wood = bearu
Grove = graf / grafa
Meadow = leah
Hollow/belly/stomach/bowels/heart = wamb
So could be, Hearts Meadow (romantic), Wambleah or Wambleas.
Less romantic could be Middle Meadow (belly meadow) or more horrible perhaps there was a famous disembowelling there (guts meadow)!
Last edited by justadame; 16th August 2012 at 02:02 PM.
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