Right now I'm going to pick up my wife as she's getting off work. That's not the part I need help with. Please go to this post on my live journal and respond with any help you can give. http://kvaadk.livejournal.com/119151.html Thanks.
Thanks. I think because I live in a sport fishing area that also produces comercial seafood and shellfish I'm used to seeing river and estuary maps with a lot of navigational detail. I wanted to boost the verisimilitude with some "local" knowledge of the waters, but really I just need a stream with a rowan on the bank I can lightning blast to a stump. I just would have liked something more authentic than the character wondering what the name of the creek was.
Zinnia -- Thanks for your esponse on LJ. The name Claydon Book looked interesting, so I decided to Google for pictures. Remember to always, always have the filters on when Googling at the coffee shop. I typed "Claydon Brook" and "Buckinghamshire" into advanced image search and got a selection of graphic shots from a swingers club. (That lady did not look comfortable.) To keep glare off my computer screen I sit facing the window with a baseball cap pulled down low so all I can see is my keyboard and screen. Which means my back -- and my screen -- is to the room in general. A quick look around discovered no one laughing or pointing, so I think the display was unobserved.
Helen -- I wish I'd followed your link before going off on my own like that. Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
I found this document which is entitled, Place-Names and Topography in the Upper Thames Country, A Regional Essay, W.J.Arkwell. Though historical and somewhat academic, it is quite interesting. There are a couple of paragraphs on stream names and their origins.
Great help, everyone. That piece is in the mail already, but now that I have all these nice links and sites to look at, I think I'll set another one in the same area ...
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The River Mimram, River Lee, River Ver, River Bulbourne, River Misbourne, River Chess, River Wye and River Gade are classified as chalk streams.
Thanks. I think because I live in a sport fishing area that also produces comercial seafood and shellfish I'm used to seeing river and estuary maps with a lot of navigational detail. I wanted to boost the verisimilitude with some "local" knowledge of the waters, but really I just need a stream with a rowan on the bank I can lightning blast to a stump. I just would have liked something more authentic than the character wondering what the name of the creek was.
Zinnia --
Thanks for your esponse on LJ. The name Claydon Book looked interesting, so I decided to Google for pictures.
Remember to always, always have the filters on when Googling at the coffee shop. I typed "Claydon Brook" and "Buckinghamshire" into advanced image search and got a selection of graphic shots from a swingers club. (That lady did not look comfortable.) To keep glare off my computer screen I sit facing the window with a baseball cap pulled down low so all I can see is my keyboard and screen. Which means my back -- and my screen -- is to the room in general. A quick look around discovered no one laughing or pointing, so I think the display was unobserved.
Helen -- I wish I'd followed your link before going off on my own like that. Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
Swingers? In Buckinghamshire? Well, well. Surely not.
Kevin - glad to be of help.
I found this document which is entitled, Place-Names and Topography in the Upper Thames Country, A Regional Essay, W.J.Arkwell. Though historical and somewhat academic, it is quite interesting. There are a couple of paragraphs on stream names and their origins.
Hope it is of some use.
http://www.oahs.org.uk/oxo/vol%207/Arkell.doc
Oh, and here is a map of Burnham Beeches, a lovely area, which identifies a couple of streams:
http://server-uk.imrworldwide.com/cgi-bin/b?cg=downloadsos&ci=cityoflondon&tu=http://213.86.34.248/NR/rdonlyres/0C275297-9854-4B66-AEB5-9F6D48E97073/0/OS_BB_map.pdf
Great help, everyone. That piece is in the mail already, but now that I have all these nice links and sites to look at, I think I'll set another one in the same area ...
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