We have published more than 2,100 titles in our series of Old Ordnance Survey Map reprints, including a large group in Lancashire and several around Wigan. 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 Pemberton:
This highly detailed map covers the Pemberton area, now the SW part of Wigan. Coverage stretches from Pemberton station eastward to Poolstock, and from Stanley Street southward to Goose Green. It is a busy map with several mineral railways. Pemberton Collieries are a major feature, incl Queen Pit, King Pit and Prince Pit. Other features include a stretch of the Liverpool-Bolton railway, incl Pemberton station, the LNWR Norley Branch, Winstanley Colliery Railway, Worsley Mesnes Colliery with mineral line, Worsley Mesnes Iron Works, several tramways, Pemberton Stone Quarries, Smithy Brook, Alexandra Park, May Mill, Blundell's Wood, Worsley Mesnes Mill, Poolstock Mill, St James church, Highfield area, Goose Green area, Worsley Mesnes area etc. Extracts from a 1910 directory, incl Billinge Road, Enfield Street, Ormskirk Road, Queen Street, Westminster Street, are included on the reverse.
The map links up with sheets 93.07 Wigan West to the north, 93.12 Ince in Makerfield to the east.
Follow this link for a complete list of our Wigan area 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 North West, return to the North West page.
The Godfrey Edition / godfreyedition@btinternet.com / 14 April 2008