We have published more than 1,800 maps in our series of Old Ordnance Survey Map reprints, including a group in Buckinghamshire. The maps are highly detailed. They are taken from the OS 1:2,500 (or 25 inch) maps and reduced to about 15 inches to the mile. Each covers an area of a mile and a half by a mile. They show streets with individual houses, tram tracks, railway tracks and even signals, factories, wharves and such details as fountains and water troughs. They will provide hours of fascination for historians and genealogists. The maps are neatly folded and each includes a specially written introduction to the area. Maps can be purchased on our On-line Mapshop where further information about titles is given. Or visit The Index Page for a full list to the series and details of Prices.
Here are the details of maps for Eton:
The sheetlines are rather unkind to Eton, cutting right through the College Cloisters, but we have double-sided this detailed map to provide good coverage. The main map covers the centre of the College and the area westward to North Field, Eton Great Common, South Field; beyond is Eton Wick, with St John the Baptist church, which became a civil parish in its own right in 1894; also Eton Cottage Hospital, and New Town. In the SW corner is Windsor Race Course with grandstand. In the town Barnespool Bridge and part of the High Street are shown, as also Folly Bridge, cemetery, St John's church, gas works, Science School. On the reverse is over half of adjacent sheet 56.06 covering the eastern part of the College, Fifteen Arch Bridge, Beggar's Bridge, Eton College Laundry. To the NE is the hamlet of Mirk and the southern fringe of Slough, including Upton Court and St Lawrence's church. In the south is part of the Public Recreation Ground, with the LSWR Windsor line looping through across the Thames.
The map links up with Bucks Sheet 56.02 Slough to the NE and the Berkshire Sheets for Windsor to the south and east. This index map shows how they link up.
Follow this link for a complete list of our Buckinghamshire Series maps.
You can order maps direct from our On-line Mapshop. For other information and prices, and other areas, go to The Index Page.
Maps in the Godfrey Edition are taken from the 25 inch to the mile map and reduced to about 15 inches to the mile. For a full list of maps for the Buckinghamshire area, return to the Thames & Chilterns page
The Godfrey Edition / godfreyedition@btinternet.com / 15 November 2005