Field Study's Man in E11 goes to the 11 corners of some earth

The field student felt some trepidation when he approached the allotment site as he had not been there since the storm earlier in the week. What havoc might have been reaped by the winds? The damage appeared slight with the 'kale forest' worst hit......

...... though not quite as drastically  as some street side trees he encountered at the time of the storm. 

Mile End 28th October.

The nights have drawn in and there is much to do about the allotment site in less and less time. Weekday evening visits have stopped and, bar working by headlamp, the work days of the weekend now finish around 5pm (and will do sooner into the winter). 

With this imperative in mind, the field student set about making a quick survey of the 11 corners of this humble patch of earth - an effort contrived to convince himself he might just know where he is sometimes. We have our doubts. The field student protested that no surveying should actually be carried out on site and that any mapping should all be done from memory and in or from the mind. Any such map would be based on impressions of the place. We are supposed to be getting lost. 

Our patch consists of 5 full allotment plots, divided nominally into 3 Plots, A, B & C. All ready we are confused by the use of the plots and Plots of the place.

Here are some views along some of the boundary lines/paths described by the corner points plotted on the map above.

5 to 6 to 7 to 8

 7 towards 8

 8 towards 9

11 to 6 to 3

An image of a map we would like to feature here is for:

New Map of the Journey of Life:

The Roads to Happiness and Misery.

Artist unknown.

From Walking Amusements for Chearful Christians

by George Wright (London, 1775)

13 x 7 3/4 inches.

(in the Map Collection of Yale University Library)