It is clearly stated in the Scouring of the Shire; Bk 3 that Frogmorton was 22 miles from the Bridge and the Three Farthing Stone just under 14 miles west of Frogmorton and 4 miles east of Bywater. But both the Scouring of the Shire and the Prologue to Book 1 say that the Stone was ‘as near the centre of the Shire as no matter’, while the Shire is said in the Prologue to have stretched 50 leagues (150 miles) from Brandywine to Westmarch and nearly 50 leagues from north to south.

The last ride was leisurely – no doubt in view of Frodo’s health. (The Grey Havens; Bk 3). It took them 7 days after they joined Bilbo and the Elves, passing south of the White Downs and the Far Downs, across the Tower Hills and so to Mithlond, the Grey Havens on the Firth of Lune.

The mountains in the south-west corner of the map were part of the Ered Luin (the Blue Mountains). These also stretched north, beyond the river Lune, and there the Dwarves, including Thorin Oakenshield, still lived and worked in the days of The Hobbit. Gimli, too, was probably born there.

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