A map of Poldark country commissioned for St Aubyn Estates has won its Penryn based designer a national award for cartography.

Clear Mapping Company was commissioned to create the map of Porthgwarra after visitors flocked to the area due it's being used as a setting for the fictional Namparra in the recent BBC television series.

In the show Ross Poldark, played by Aidan Turner, used the tiny fishing cove to take his morning dip, while his maid Demelza spied on him from the cliffs above.

After using Ordnance Survey resources to create the map, Clear Mapping's Caroline RObinson entered it into the British Cartographic Society's Ordnance Survey OpenData Awards in September 2015, and was excited to be chosen as the winner.

Caroline worked with St Aubyn Estates to collect information on the area, before producing a map and interpretation board showing visitors which footpaths were available as part of the South West Coast Path and which were restricted, and revealing the history and culture of the small fishing community in Porthgwarra.

Caroline said: “Researching Porthgwarra was a real delight. The history of the families at Porthgwarra is well documented in a book by Christine Gendall, but the Poldark TV series helped to visualise the remoteness and beauty of the area.”

She added: “We are so delighted that we won the Ordnance Survey OpenData Award 2015 at the British Cartographic Society event held in York this year.

“Everyone has been very supportive of our beautiful map, in which the judges said the quality of entrants has been extremely high. For a young business based in Cornwall, to get national recognition for our work, from our harshest critics – our peers – is absolutely fantastic.”