City Plan: Pellmoor#

Using the plan. Drag to move, and zoom with the mouse wheel, the + and − buttons, or a pinch. Names come in as you zoom, each set lettered to read at the same size on screen:

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

The ⤢ button fills the screen. North is up, and the scale bar bottom left is always true.

The city at a glance#

The districts#

The moor rises to the north-west in a ragged edge, with intakes of farmland pushed up into it and fingers of heather reaching down. The old pits lie along that edge, with their engine houses and spoil heaps. The city spreads south-east into the vale.

Getting around#

• The Stair Railway: "The Stair Railway (1890s) links all seven capitals. Electrified, not maglev." (18:281) Pellmoor Station is in the Rows.
• The Grimholt road runs north-west over the moor to Grimholt, where "The Republic is proclaimed" in 1788 (17:120).
• The Westhaven road runs west to Westhaven, the Republic's port.
• The Arvenne road runs east-south-east toward Arvenne.
• The moor tracks are dashed on the plan: the Peat Road up to the peat cuttings, the Tinners' Way west from the old pits, and the Cairn Track.
• Air. There is an airport at Pellmoor (18:284). The plan puts Pellmoor Airport in the vale to the south-east.

Landmarks#

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

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 Pellmoor the rules take this form:

• The Presidents' streets sit round the Moot, by their plain names: "Rhys Hale Street", never a title. The sitting President has no street.
• The kings keep the Old Town. The Republic did not rename the streets it inherited.
• The Rows are numbered, First Street by the Moot to Thirtieth Street at the Rows' far edge.
• Each district names its streets for its work or its ground: the mine in Pithead and the Rows, the moor in Moorside, the Republic in Lowside.
• The old lanes keep their founders' names. They are the moor's family names: Morgan's Lane, Powell's Lane, Gethin's Lane, Rees's Lane, Hopkin's Lane.
• The villages keep their own streets: Pit Row Lane, Lamp End, Fold Lane, Stile Street.
• Estates were built on the fields that sold, each with a theme:
  • the moor (Heather Avenue, Fell Avenue, Beck Way);
  • flowers (Columbine Way, Marigold Drive);
  • trees (Chestnut Drive);
  • birds (Heron Way, Starling Close);
  • herbs (Coriander Road);
  • stones (Marble Road).
• Fields whose owners never sold are still farmed, with the estates round them.
• Every street longer than 80 m has a name: 4,463 of 4,630.
  • 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. Pellmoor does not build upward; it is a grey stone city, and its growth has gone into the vale.

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-".
• The Brennan and Carrick Presidents have no streets, because the canon's Brannock and Harrow groups crowd those names already.