Old Ordnance Survey Maps of Yorkshire

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, 247.04 Earlsheaton to the east, and 247.07 Thornhill Lees to the south.

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