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 Bradley Fold:
This detailed map covers the hamlet of Bradley Fold, midway between Bolton and Bury. This was a semi rural area and features include Bradley Fold with station, Bradley Fold Works, Bradley Fold Pottery, Bradley Fold Print Works, Ainsworth Mills, Ainsworth Vale Dye Works, Ainsworth Mercerising Works, Coggra Fold. Bradley Fold Junction is near the eastern margin. On the reverse we include a large section of the 1927 revision of the map, showing much more industrial development, now including Fold Mill, Starmount Print Works, Lomax Bank Paper Mill, a much larger Bradley Fold Works, St Oswald's Mission church and other development along Bury New Road.
The map links up with Lancashire Sheets 87.11 Ainsworth to the north, 87.14 Bolton East to the west, 87.16 Radcliffe North to the east and 95.03 Little Lever to the south.
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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 / 28 December 2007