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 Ashton (East):
This highly detailed map covers the eastern part of Ashton in Makerfield, now part of Wigan MBC. Coverage stretches from Town Green and York Road eastward to Dam Lane and Edge Green Colliery. Features include the eastern part of Ashton, incl Record Cotton Mill, Town Green Farm, Cookson's Farm, Bolton Road and tramway. Further east the map includes Golborne Road, Edge Green Colliery, a stretch of the GCR St Helen's Branch, Garswood Hall Collieries Shaft 9, Harrow Hotel, and several mineral lines around Edge Green. On the reverse we include a list of private residents in Ashton from a 1918 directory.
The map links up with sheets 101.04 Bamfurlong to the north, 101.07 Ashton in Makerfield to the west.
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 / 15 April 2008