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 Ossett:
This detailed map is taken from the 1st Edition Ordnance Survey plan for the area. The small town of Ossett - which had a population of 10,984 in 1891 - is in the top left corner, where features include Market Place, Bank Street, GNR railway with station, Great Northern Hotel, Croft House. Coverage continues south to South Ossett, including Victoria Mills, Green House, Christ Church, Storrs Hill, Giggal Hill. It also extends eastward to Low Common, with Haggs Hill. In the bottom right corner is Ossett Spa, with Ossett Spa Mills, Spring Field Mills and the spa itself; here there were two bathing establishments, their waters noted for "celebrating the gout, rheumatism, and the scrofula". During the 1870s there were plans to develop Ossett into a second Harrogate, but little progress was made with this.
The map links up with Sheet 248.09 Horbury to the south.
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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 / 31 July 2007