We have published more than 1,900 maps in our series of Old Ordnance Survey Map reprints, including a large group in County Durham, where we are based. 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 Monkwearmouth:
This highly detailed map is one of a group we have published for the City of Sunderland. The map is double-sided to give maximum coverage and covers much of the area north of the River Wear, historically known as Monkwearmouth. Coverage stretches from Southwick eastward to the coast. Features on the main map include Holy Trinity church Southwick, The Green, High Southwick, Low Southwick, Cornhill Dock, Deptford Yard (on the south side of the river), Carley Hill Farm, Carley Hill Wagonway, Sunderland's Newcastle Road football ground (the club had not yet moved to Roker), Wearmouth Colliery, Monkwearmouth Iron & Steel Works, Wearmouth Foundry, Wear Hemp & Wire Rope Works, tramways. Railways include the NER's Newcastle & Sunderland line (though Monkwearmouth station is south of this map), North Dock Branch and Hylton Southwick & Monkwearmouth Branch. The map on the reverse - sheet 8.11 - continues coverage eastward and covers the coastal area including North Dock, Harbour Entrance, lighthouses, Roker Pier, Roker Park, Roker Hotel, South Pier, Coastguard station.
This map links up with Sheets 8.14 Central Sunderland to the south.
You might find this index map useful.
Follow this link for a complete list of our Sunderland 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 East, return to the North East page.
The Godfrey Edition / godfreyedition@btinternet.com / 20 August 2006