We have published more than 2,000 maps in our series of Old Ordnance Survey Map reprints, including a group for the Yorkshire area. 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 Idle:
This detailed map covers an area just NE of Bradford which includes parts of three parishes. The main village is Idle, within Bradford County Borough, and this is in the top left quarter of the map. Features here include the GNR Shipley Branch and station, Holy Trinity church, Castle Mills, Springfield Mill, The Green, Town End, Thorp, Union Mill, Castle Mills, Fourlands, while to the south is the hamlet of Springfield and St John's church. Further east is the village of Greengates, within Eccleshill parish, and features here include Holybrook Mills, Oak Lee Mills, Albion Mills, New Lane, Harrogate Road, St John's church. Beyond this our map includes part of Calverley parish (but not that village) including Ravenscliffe Mills, Calverley Carr, West Wood. Finally in the top right quarter of the map is Apperley Bridge, on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, including Dyehouse Fold, Valley Mill, Dyehouse Mill. On the reverse we include street directory entries for Albion Road, Bradford Road, The Green, Harrogate Road, Idle High Street, New Line (Greengates), New Street and Town Lane.
Follow this link for a complete list of our Bradford and Leedsarea maps; or here for the whole Yorkshire series.
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 / 26 June 2007