We have published more than 2,000 maps in our series of Old Ordnance Survey Map reprints, including a major 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 Halifax:
This detailed map covers the NW area of Halifax, including parts of Ovenden and Pellon Wards. Coverage stretches from Queens Road westward to Royles Head Reservoir, and from Victoria Cattle Market northward to Wheatley Dye Works and part of Wheatley itself. Features include Ryburne Mills, Hanson Lane, Battinson Road, Halifax High Level Branch and Pellon station, Snake Hill Wood, Brackenbed Brewery, Halifax Barracks, Highroad Well, Albert Reservoir, New Pellon, Mount Pellon, Brackenbed Grange, Blackwood Mill, disused racecourse, Ruston Works, Norton Tower, Warley Edge, Highroad Well Moor, Dodgson Wood, Ovenden Wood Brewery. On the reverse we include street directory entries for Queen's Road, Spring Hall Lane, Stretchgate Lane, Sutcliffe Street.
The map links up with Sheets 231.05 Halifax North to the east, and 230.12 Sowerby Bridge to the south.
Follow this link for a complete list of our Halifax and Calderdale area 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.
The Godfrey Edition / godfreyedition@btinternet.com / 23 May 2007