We have published more than 2,100 maps in our series of Old Ordnance Survey Map reprints, including a large group in Lancashire. 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 Ainsworth:
This detailed map covers the village of Ainsworth, midway between Bolton and Bury. The village is central to the map and features include Christ Church, Hey Club Row, chapels, Moorside Mill, quarry, Ainsworth Hall, Anthony Fields, Ainsworth Hospital, and various outlying houses. Coverage extends eastward to Cockey Moor and westward to Breightmet Fold (SW corner of map) on the outskirts of Bolton; features there include Breightmet Bleach Works, Red Bridge Mill. Harwood Lodge is in NW corner of map. On the reverse we include a directory of Ainsworth, plus portraits and information on John Miles, Mayor of Bolton, and John Battersby, Mayor of Bury, and their wives.
The map links up with Lancashire Sheets 87.10 Bolton NE to the west, 87.12 Bury West to the east and 87.15 Bradley Fold to the south.
Follow this link for a complete list of our Rochdale & Bury and Boltonmaps.
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 North West, return to the North West page.
The Godfrey Edition / godfreyedition@btinternet.com / 21 December 2007