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 Prestwich:
This detailed map covers most of Prestwich, just north of Manchester. Coverage extends from Gardner Road northward to Phillips Park Road, and from South Wood eastward to Randlesham Street. Bury New Road runs north-south through the map. Features include a stretch of the Manchester-Radcliffe line with Prestwich station, tramways, and the communities of Holyrood and Prestwich Park shown just outside Prestwich itself. Dominant features are the main Prestwich County Lunatic Asylum and its large Annexe further south. Other features include Waterdale Dye Works, St Mary's church, Britannia Mill, Asylum Farm, hospitals. On the reverse we include 1903 street directory extracts for Bury New Road, Church Lane, Dashwood Road, Ernest Street, Guest Road, Sharp Street.
The map links up with Lancashire Sheets 96.05 Whitefield to the north, 95.12 Clifton to the west, 96.10 Heaton Park to the east and 96.13 Rainsough to the south.
Follow this link for a complete list of our Rochdale & Bury 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 / 22 May 2007