Teenager has spent half his life creating map of imaginary city by hand

A 14-year-old lad spent 7 years drafting a representation of a fantasy city and adjacent wrote question guides and past books astir it.

Jake Daniels-Shipsmith started the bonzer representation erstwhile helium was 7 and yet finished the epic task connected Sunday.

The map, made up of 9 pieces of A3 paper, is of an imaginary metropolis called Ty-taniam, pronounced ‘titanium’ and features a Tudor town, a Roman metropolis and Medieval villages.

The teenager, who is passionate about history and geography, stopped moving connected the task regularly arsenic helium got older, but decided to decorativeness it implicit the weekend.

Jake, a secondary schoolhouse pupil from Bedminster, Bristol, said: ‘I can’t adjacent truly retrieve wherefore I started it to beryllium honest.

‘I conscionable retrieve it was thing I truly enjoyed doing successful my escaped fractional hr earlier leaving for schoolhouse successful the morning.

‘It made maine blessed to yet implicit the map, conscionable due to the fact that it had been going for truthful agelong that I wanted to spot it each finished.’

Alongside the map, which measures 3 metres by 1 metre, Jake has written question guides and past books for the assorted areas.

He besides created a Certificate of Completion which helium drew up for himself erstwhile it was done.

The metropolis has respective places that notation to periods of clip erstwhile Jake was putting the representation together.

Jake said: ‘I person a pub called the Jubilee Inn which I drew erstwhile it was Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee.

‘I besides person a Charles III parkland aft helium was crowned arsenic king.

‘Some of the books that spell with the representation arsenic good are circuit guides for tourists to Ty-taniam but others are past books for the municipality itself.’

Jake’s favourite areas of the city include the Tudor country of Chattemdown and the water-side municipality of Shipton.

He said: ‘I truly similar the Tudor centre of Ty-taniam called Chattemdown, but the oldest country of the city is the Roman municipality successful the north.

‘For these places I similar to gully abstracted images of the houses you’d spot there.

‘There are immoderate modern places, similar Ridley, which has gangly towers and an RAF centre.’

Jake’s parents, Jonathan Shipsmith, 52, and James Daniels, 52, person besides contributed to the map, arsenic good arsenic Jake’s duplicate sister Leonie and immoderate of his superior schoolhouse classmates.

Jake said: ‘My dada (Jonathan) added a rowing lake, my dada (James) drew connected a harborside and immoderate formation details.

‘My sister ended up doing a café successful the mediate of the h2o due to the fact that she thought it was land.

‘Some of my classmates added to it arsenic well- 1 of them drew a zoo!’.

Aside from these contributions, Jake’s parents said 99.9% of the representation was done by Jake himself and that they’re immensely arrogant of his creativity and imagination.

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