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Struggled through to completion.....except the pesky 7 letter filler. I want it to be an appropriate landmark, but this doesn't make 6 new crossing words and would be incorrect geographically. Can anyone give me a final nudge please ?

Wish I could, Tony. Looks like you're ahead of me. I have the 28-cell feature and its name (I think), a probable outline for the 44-cell block, the two letters to highlight (again, I think) and I can see the pattern of the modified entries. But although I have a rough idea of the kind of thing we're looking for, I have absolutely no idea what the grid is supposed to represent or how to fill the blank cells. I have spent several hours on this endgame (I received an advance copy) and I'm not sure whether this is one of those Guess What I'm Thinking puzzles or me being dim. Probably the latter.

I hope others can help!

Oh dear, loge. You've confirmed my fears.
Does your 44 letter block consist of 5 rows with consecutively 3, 8, 11,11 and 11 letters in them ?
The feature below the rows obviously a water feature.

We might be overthinking the block. Is it just supposed to represent part of a map according to the rubric ? I assume that the block represents the event's affected area. The 2 letters are just it's starting and finishing points. ....or is this oversimplifying ?

I had something slightly different for the 44 block, with an extra cell on the top row and one less in the third row. Yours is probably right. Agreed on water feature.

The letters in the block appear to be gibberish, though I can see the name of a poet reversed in row 3 of the block and, next to it but separated by two cells, a four letter word written normally. I suspect that's irrelevant though?

Sorry we crossed. I don't know what event this refers to. Is the title a help?

Got the event now from a hint on the page. Why didn't I see that before? Will now work on this with that in mind.

Nope. Still no idea what goes in the seven blanks. The middle letter must surely be an L, and the last an E, I or Y. There are too many variables for the word to fill itself in without knowing what we're looking for, and my psychic powers are a bit below par today.

One possibility that gives six real intersecting words is a British songwriter and broadcaster, Another is something you use in supermarkets. But what either of those have to do with this is anyone's guess.

I have a problem with the outlining too. to get 44 cells we need to include some of the letters that haven't moved, but which ones? There are several possibilities. This representation of the affected area is too crude for to link it to an actual map of the relevant area.

A date, perhaps (old style).

Brilliant - thanks. I'd never have got that, not least because I think in modern letters - and surely this is inconsistent with the other appearances of this letter? Still, that must be it.

What do you make of the outlining?