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 & Sowerby Bridge
This detailed map covers the SW area of Halifax and the northern part of Sowerby Bridge. Coverage stretches from Tuel Lane and Hollins Lane (Sowerby Bridge) eastward to Conway Street and Bentley Street (Halifax); and from Town Hall Street (SB) northward to Gibbet Street. Features in the Halifax area include Washer Lane Dye Works, Scar Bottom, King Cross Road, St Paul's church, Parkinson Lane, Dunkirk Mills, Pioneer Iron Works, St Paul's station, Gibraltar, Hopwood Lane, Victoria Reservoir, Kingston Biscuit Factory, West View Park. Pye Nest is in the centre of the map. Features in the Sowerby Bridge area include Canal Mills, Calder & Hebble Navigation, Rochdale Canal, River Calder, Christ Church, Wharf Street, Bolton Brow, Warley Clough, Willow Hall Mills, Causeway Head, Binns Hill, Warley Town, Fern Hill, Cote Hill. Several tramways are depicted. We include street directories for Bolton Brow, Hollins Lane, Hollins Mill Lane, Industrial Road, Town Hall Street, Tuel Lane, Wakefield Road, Wharf Street.
The map links up with Sheets 230.08 Halifax NW to the north, and 231.09 Halifax South to the east.
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