Posted by Claire on March 13, 2008 at 15:32:31 from 75.133.81.100 user Claire_Morgan.
In Reply to: Re: Surrounding landscape Locations for Beckfoot posted by Jock on March 13, 2008 at 10:43:11:
"A technique that you might try is looking at Ransome geography and comparing it to the mirror image of the large scale OS mapping. It gives an interesting twist to the Pull Wood House geography."
Indeed it does! I hadn't thought of that - thank you for sharing that idea! Brock Craig suddenly becomes the Beckfoot Promontory.
One point I forgot to mention is related. When I was looking at the map where Torver Beck empties into Conniston, I realized the Beckfoot Promontory shape was there, but lacking in elevation. Yet when one is looking at a map to 'borrow' features as Ransome probably did for his composite lake map, the *shape* becomes more important, and then one can make it any elevation one wants. He could then 'improve' places that he was familiar with on the ground, with parts of other places he had been. The best example of this is the combination of Blakeholm and Peel Island, which are in similar places in Windermere, Conniston, and Ransome's composite lake.