We have published more than 2,100 maps in our series of Old Ordnance Survey Map reprints, including a major group in Yorkshire. 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 Dewsbury:
This detailed map covers the town of Dewsbury, one of West Yorkshire's 'big six' and a county borough until 1965. Most of the town is shown, with coverage stretching from Spinkwell Mills southward to Dewsbury Mills, and from Moor Bottom eastward to Leeds Road and Wakefield Road. The many features include Town Hall, Market Place, LNWR Leeds & Dewsbury line with station, LYR Dewsbury Branch with terminus, GNR station, LYR Ravensthorpe Branch with station at Scout Hill, River Calder, Tanhouse Chemical Works, Burgh Mills, cemetery, Headfield Mills, Saville Town, Aire & Calder basin, Town End, Calder Bank Mills, Cut End Mills, Saville Mills, Eastborough, Eightlands, The Flatts, West Town, Watergate, Daw Green, Crow Nest Park, Boothroyd with St John's church, Conyers Colliery, tramways and much more. A Midland Railway approach to the town (which became goods only) is shown as 'under construction'. A list of private residents from a 1904 directory is included on the reverse.
The map links up with sheet 232.15 Staincliffe to the north, 247.02 Mirfield NE to the west and 247.07 Thornhill Lees to the south.
Follow this link for a complete list of our Kirklees and Huddersfield maps; or here for the whole Yorkshire series.
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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 / 29 August 2008