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 Smethwick:
This detailed map covers a good area of Smethwick, then a Municipal Borough, including much of Uplands, Victoria and Soho Wards. Coverage stretches from Auckland Road eastward to Vittoria Street, and from Great Arthur Street southward to Florence Road. A small portion of Birmingham is also included. The map is also Warwickshire Sheet 13.03.
Features include Victoria Park, tramways and depot, Cape Hill Brewery, St George's Works, Patent Screw Works, London Works, Imperial Wire Mills, Soho Foundry, Cornwall Engineering Works, Credenda Steel Tube Works, Kingston Metal Works, District Iron & Steel Works, Smethwick Iron Foundry, Holy Trinity church, St Matthew's church, LNWR Stour Valley line with Smethwick station, Soap Works Junction, Bridge Wharf, Birmingham Canal, Smethwick Locks, St Michael & All Angels church, etc. On the reverse we include street directory entries for Bearwood Hill, Smethwick High Street, Rolfe Street, Soho Street, South Road.
The map links up with Staffordshire sheets 68.15 Hawthorns to the north, 72.07 Bearwood to the south, Worcestershire sheet 5.02 Langley to the west and Warwickshire sheet 13.04 Winson Green to the east.
For a full list of maps of local maps, please go to the Birmingham page or to the Sandwell 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