Jake Daniels-Shipsmith spent seven years drawing the impressive map (Picture: Tom Wren/SWNS)
A 14-year-old boy spent seven years drawing a map of a fantasy city and even wrote travel guides and history books about it.
Jake Daniels-Shipsmith started the extraordinary map when he was seven and finally finished the epic project on Sunday.
The map, made up of nine pieces of A3 paper, is of an imaginary city called Ty-taniam, pronounced ‘titanium’ and features a Tudor town, a Roman city and Medieval villages.
The teenager, who is passionate about history and geography, stopped working on the project regularly as he got older, but decided to finish 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.’
Jake with his three-metre by one-metre city map (Picture: Tom Wren/SWNS)
Alongside the map, which measures three metres by one metre, Jake has written travel guides and history books for the various areas.
He also created a Certificate of Completion which he drew up for himself once it was done.
The city has several places that refer to periods of time when Jake was putting the map together.
Jake said: ‘I have a pub called the Jubilee Inn which I drew when it was Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee.
Jake started the map when he was seven (Picture: Tom Wren/SWNS)
‘I also have a Charles III park after he was crowned as king.
‘Some of the books that go with the map as well are tour guides for tourists to Ty-taniam but others are history books for the town itself.’
Jake’s favourite areas of the city include the Tudor area of Chattemdown and the water-side town of Shipton.
He said: ‘I really like the Tudor centre of Ty-taniam called Chattemdown, but the oldest area of the city is the Roman town in the north.
The map is made up of nine A3 sides of paper (Picture: Tom Wren/SWNS)
It includes notes to show when Jake drew that section of the map (Picture: Tom Wren/SWNS)
‘For these places I like to draw separate images of the houses you’d see there.
‘There are some modern places, like Ridley, which has tall towers and an RAF centre.’
Jake’s parents, Jonathan Shipsmith, 52, and James Daniels, 52, have also contributed to the map, as well as Jake’s twin sister Leonie and some of his primary school classmates.
Jake created a certificate of completion to mark the end of his project (Picture: Tom Wren / SWNS)
Jake said: ‘My dad (Jonathan) added a rowing lake, my dad (James) drew on a harborside and some beach details.
‘My sister ended up doing a café in the middle of the water because she thought it was land.
‘Some of my classmates added to it as well- one of them drew a zoo!’.
Aside from these contributions, Jake’s parents said 99.9% of the map was done by Jake himself and that they’re immensely proud of his creativity and imagination.
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