Here are the details of maps for Craven Arms:
We have published more than 1,800 maps in our series of Old Ordnance Survey Map reprints, including a good groups for Shropshire. 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 Craven Arms:
This detailed map of Craven Arms is double-sided to give maximum coverage. The main map covers the little town of Craven Arms, famous as a major market centre. The town was created by the opening of the Shrewsbury & Hereford Railway, opened as far as Ludlow in 1852, and a station was opened then. It takes its name from the Craven Arms Hotel. It soon became the junction with the Knighton Railway (later the Central Wales line) and terminus for the Much Wenlock and Bishops Castle lines, so became quite a significant junction. Our map shows the station with turntable, sidings, signal posts etc; the auction yards, and the small group of streets. Coverage extends north to Newington, east to Halford, south to Newton and the Stokesay Castle Hotel, west to Albion Terrace and beyond into open country. On the back we include a large section of sheet 70.08 which extends coverage south to the much older Stokesay, with its Castle, St John the Baptist's church, Stokesay Bridge. Extracts from an early directory, listing inhabitants of Stokesay and Craven Arms, are also included.
Follow this link for a complete list of our Shropshire Series maps. We have also published a small scale Inch to the Mile map for the area.
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 Midlands, return to the West Midlands page.
The Godfrey Edition / godfreyedition@btinternet.com / 29 Dec 2005