We have published more than 1,800 maps in our series of Old Ordnance Survey Map reprints, including a group in Oxfordshire. 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 Henley-on-Thames:
We have published two detailed maps of Henley. Though the North map is perhaps the most important, as it covers the town centre, the two maps are intended as a pair and link up neatly with each other to provide good coverage of this riverside town, famous for its Henley Regatta.
The Henley North map covers the town centre. Coverage stretches from Friar Park and Rotherfield Court eastward to Remenham Wood, and from the railway terminus northward to Swiss Farm, Badgemore Farm and Remenham Lodge. Features include the town centre, Henley Bridge, Duke Street, Hart Street, New Street, Friday Street, Market Place, Town Hall, Bell Street, Phillis Court, brewery, Thames Side, West Hill, Gravel Hill, Westfield House, Windmill Cottage, workhouse, all shown in some detail. The Thames runs north-south through the map and on the east, Berkshire side are Bird Place, Thamesfield and a few other houses. On the reverse we include the first part of a commercial directory, A-S, along with Barrie Trinder's comprehensive introduction to the history of the town.
The Henley South map continues coverage south, covering an area from St Mark's Road and Reading Road southward to Harpsden Court. Part of Harpsden village is in the lower part of the map, including St Margaret's church, Harpsdencourt Farm, Harpsden Hall. Other features on the map include Harpsden Heights, Drawback Hill, Coldharbour Farm, Newtown, Sheephouse Farm, Marsh Mill. On the reverse is the continuation of the commercial directory plus a list of private residents of Henley from a Directory of 1899; a directory for Harpsden; information about a Mayor of Henley, Alderman C Clements; and a GWR railway timetable for the Henley branch in 1906. Another essay from Barrie Trinder completes an important pair of maps, providing a very good historical overview of Henley-on-Thames.
You might find this index map useful.
Follow this link for a complete list of our Oxfordshire 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 Berkshire and Oxfordshire area, return to the Thames & Chilterns page
The Godfrey Edition / godfreyedition@btinternet.com / 3 December 2005