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 Bearwood:
This detailed map covers the Bearwood and Rotton areas, west of Birmingham, south of Smethwick. The map also comprises Warwickshire sheet 13.07 and Worcestershire Sheet 5.07. Coverage stretches from Warley Road and Abbey Road eastward to Rotton Park Road, and from Edith Road southward to Hagley Road.
Features include Thimblemill Pool, Lightwoods, Old King's Head pub, St Mary's church, Bell House, stretch of LNWR Harborne Branch with Rotton Park Road and Hagley Road stations, Upper Edgbaston Reservoir, canal feeder etc. Housing is spreading across the map, especially the Staffordshire (ie Bearwood Ward) part. On the reverse we include street directory extracts for Bearwood Road, Gillott Road, Lightwood's Road, Poplar Avenue, Poplar Road.
The map links up with Staffordshire sheets 72.03 Smethwick to the north, 72.06 Warley to the west, and Warwickshire sheets 13.08 Birmingham West to the east and 13.11 Harborne to the south.
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