City Plan: Hastholm#

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Whole city: the Keep, the districts and the villages.
About 2½ times: main streets, the walls and the great buildings.
About 6 times: the longer streets and the smaller places.
About 12 times: the name of nearly every street.

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The city at a glance#


What it is	The capital of the Duchy of Hastholm: "Hastholm, 1.1 million, in the shadow of Hastholm Keep." (18:96) The Keep is "The Duke's fortress and the bloc's strongest land garrison." (19:55)
People	1.1 million (17:669; 18:96), in a state of 16 million (18:99). The largest city of the Duchy is Irondown, with 2.0 million (18:96). Duke Osric VII, of House Wychwood, has reigned since 2288; he is 63, and commanded Hastholm's volunteer frames in the Corridor War (18:97).
Government	"The Duke governs in person, with the Estates of Hastholm (an elected chamber and a chamber of guild and landholding families) able to block taxes and laws. The strongest executive in the Seven." (18:98)
Where	On the uplands, where "Shalebacks, six-legged armoured grazers, cross the Hastholm and Ormsby uplands in herds." (17:186) The plan sets the city near 960 m, below a crag.
Climate	The canon gives only the Duchy's station at Irondown: −6 °C in the coldest month, 20 °C in the warmest, 790 mm of rain a year (17:178).
Speech	Northern: "the frontier's names for the stars (Sól, Surtr, Máni, Hati) are common here, though these are not frontier people." (17:679) "Only Hastholm insists on "Your Grace"." (18:361)
On the plan	The sheet is 40 × 32 km. About 233 km² is built up, and 1,047 km² of the uplands is still farmed. The plan shows 5,125 streets, about 4,700 km of them. 4,986 have names, which is every street longer than 80 m.

The districts#

The Keep stands on a crag to the north-north-east of the old town, 70 m above it on a steep face, inside its own curtain wall. The walled old town lies at the crag's foot, and the city spreads south and west across the upland.

District	What is there	Its streets are named for
The Keep	Hastholm Keep (canon, 19:55) on the crag's top, with the Keep barracks (canon garrison, 18:200; the barracks are a proposal) and the curtain wall. The Keep Road climbs the crag's face from the old town in a switchback.	-
The Old Town	Inside the town wall, below the crag. The Estates of Hastholm (canon, 18:98) sit here.	the Dukes and Duchesses of Hastholm since AL 1109 (17:435), with House Hast: Godric Street, Mireille Street, Warin Avenue, Aldith Lane, Hild Lane, Ivo Lane, Cassian Lane, Tamsin Lane, Hast Street
Musterside	East of the old town, under the crag. The Muster Field is here, where the Duke's Muster parades below the Keep.	the Duchy's soldiering: Muster Lane, Garrison Street, Volunteer Road, Pike Street, Shield Lane, Postern Avenue, Drum Street, Duty Street, Stand Fast Lane, and Struck Again Street, for the motto (17:64)
The Forges	The works by the railway, south-west of the old town	the anvil and the steel: Forge Lane, Anvil Way, Bloom Street, Quench Street, Iron Street, Steel Lane, Farrier Avenue, Rolling Mill Avenue
The New Town	The planned town south of the old town, round Hastholm Station	numbered, First Street to Twenty-fourth Street, crossed by avenues named for the upland: Shaleback Avenue, Whinstone Avenue, Sheepfold Avenue, Bracken Avenue, Heath Avenue
Westside	The town west and north-west of the old town	the upland: Cairn Street, Crag Street, Scree Lane, Ghyll Lane, Beck Street, Juniper Lane, Larch Street, Shaleback Lane, Plover Street
The uplands	Fields and farms round the city, crossed by old lanes. The villages are Aldersyke, Hartsell, Wethercote and Cragfoot.	see How the streets are named

Getting around#

The Stair Railway: "The Stair Railway (1890s) links all seven capitals. Electrified, not maglev." (18:281) On the plan it crosses the city west to east, with Hastholm Station in the New Town. Out on the upland, the plan marks shaleback crossings, where "Railways stop for them." (17:186)
The Hastholm road (canon name) runs south-west toward Tarn Cross, the "Market town on the Hastholm road" (19:42), and on to Pellmoor.
The Irondown road runs west-south-west to Irondown, the Duchy's largest city and its forges (18:96; 18:100).
The Kellmoor road runs east-south-east toward Kellmoor, the "Ducal market town" (19:36).
The Wychford road runs west toward Wychford, on the Sallow border.
The Ormsby road runs north-west over the uplands toward Ormsby.
Air. The canon lists no airport at Hastholm; the Duchy's is at Irondown (18:284).

Landmarks#

Canon places are marked canon. Their position on the plan is a proposal unless the text gives it.

Place	Where on the plan	Note
Hastholm Keep (canon)	On the crag, north-north-east of the old town	"The Duke's fortress and the bloc's strongest land garrison." (19:55) The Duke governs from it in person (18:98). The Atlas marks it 76 km north-north-east, spread for legibility.
The Keep barracks (canon garrison)	On the crag	The Hastholm Ducal Army and Hastholm Keep: 64,000, "The largest land force" (18:200). The barracks are a proposal.
The Estates of Hastholm (canon)	The Old Town	Two chambers, "able to block taxes and laws" (18:98).
The Muster Field	Musterside, below the crag	Where the Duke's Muster, 30 Reaping, parades at the Keep (18:310).
The town wall and the Keep's curtain wall	Round the old town, and round the crag's top	8.3 km and 5.9 km on the plan.

How the streets are named#

streets are often numbered;
famous people, leaders above all, get streets, and those streets sit together;
an estate takes a theme, such as flowers;
many streets keep the name of whoever first laid the road;
some streets simply stop at a field whose owner never sold, and the suburbs have their cul-de-sacs.

In Hastholm the rules take this form:

The Dukes' streets fill the walled old town, with House Hast, the Duchy's first house. The reigning Duke has no street.
Musterside names its streets for soldiering, and the Forges for the anvil, the Duchy's emblem (17:64).
The New Town is numbered, First Street to Twenty-fourth Street.
The old lanes keep their founders' names, the upland's family names: Scaife's Lane, Nattrass's Lane, Birkett's Lane, Garnett's Lane, Outhwaite's Lane, Metcalfe's Lane.
The villages keep their own streets: Cross Lane, Forge End, Fold Street, Stile Lane.
Estates were built on the fields that sold, each with a theme:
- the upland (Beck View, Crag Grove, Heath Walk);
- flowers (Clover Road, Violet Way, Foxglove Drive);
- trees (Hawthorn Gardens);
- herbs (Caraway Grove);
- stones (Agate Gardens);
- birds (Warbler Drive).
Fields whose owners never sold are still farmed, with the estates round them.
Every street longer than 80 m has a name: 4,986 of 5,125.
- A name is used once in the city.
- The estates may repeat a name found far off, never within 6 km or in the same locality.
No towers. Hastholm is "Martial, dutiful, landlocked" (18:103). It keeps the height for its Keep.

The names avoid everything the naming rules and the canon forbid:

Nothing is taken from Earth's places or history (05:266).
No new name uses the crowded families: "-gate", "-mere", "-combe", "Salt-", "Grey-" and "Hollow-".
House Wychwood has no street, so that it is not confused with the town of Wychford.
Only the road up to the fortress, the Keep Road, carries the word "Keep". In the Crown the Keeps are prisons (03:161), so no other street takes it.