Teen Completes Intricate Fantasy City Map After 7 Years Of Crafting‌ ‌

Jake Daniels-Shipsmith with his incredible city map. TOM WREN VIA SWNS.

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A teen has spent the last seven years creating a fantasy city map and even wrote travel guides and history books about it.

Jake Shipsmith, 14, has been working on this map since he was seven years old and just completed it last Sunday, Sept 8.

The map, made of nine pieces of A3 paper, is three meters long and one meter wide and is a testament to Jake’s love of history and geography.

The city of Ty-taniam, pronounced “titanium,” has several sections spanning different historical periods, including a Tudor town, a Roman city, and Medieval villages.

As he got older, Jake stopped working on the map regularly until about a week ago when he decided to finish the piece and completed it over the weekend.

Jake, a secondary school student from Bedminster, Bristol, said: “I can’t even really remember why I started it to be honest.

“I just remember it was something I really enjoyed doing in my free half hour before leaving for school in the morning.

“It made me happy to finally complete the map, just because it had been going for so long that I wanted to see it all finished.”

Alongside the map, Jake has written travel guides and history books for various areas.

He also created a Certificate of Completion, which he drew up for himself once it was done.

There are also specific themed establishments throughout Ty-taniam which refer to the time in which Jake was drawing out the map.

Jake said: “I have a pub called the Jubilee Inn, which I drew when it was Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee.