We have published more than 2,200 maps in our series of Old Ordnance Survey Map reprints, and the series includes a very good group for Birmingham and the West Midlands. 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. 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. For other information and Prices, see Index Page.
Here are the details of maps for Handsworth (North):
This detailed map covers Handsworth Wood area, north of Birmingham, with part of Hamstead in the north partt of a fairly rural map. Coverage stretches from Oxhill Road northward to Hamstead Mill and eastward to Perry Hall. Other features include Brown's Green, Wesleyan College, Lea Hall, stretch of LNWR line with Perry Barr North Junction and Handsworth Junction, Hamstead Lodge, Cherry Orchard Farm, Hawthorn House, tramway to Hamstead Hill Wharf. On the reverse we include diredctory extracts, including College Road, Handsworth Wood Road, Somerset Road, Wellington Road
The map links up with Staffordshire sheet 68.11 Sandwell Hall to the west, Perry Barr to the east, and Warwickshire sheets 7.16 Handsworth to the south.
For a full list of maps of Birmingham, please go to the Birmingham page.
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 England, return to the England page.
Alan Godfrey Maps, Prospect Business Park, Leadgate, Consett, Co Durham, DH8 7PW / godfreyedition@btinternet.com / 23 April 2009