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 Darfield:
This detailed map covers a group of villages SE of Barnsley. A small portion of Wombwell is in the bottom left corner, incl a stretch of the Dearne & Dove Canal, station on the GCR Barnsley-Barnetby line, Railway Hotel and glass bottle works. North of this a GCR branch runs to Darfield Main Colliery and South Yorkshire Sanitary Tube Works, with all sidings shown; near to them is Netherwood Hall. In the centre of the map is the hamlet of Low Valley, incl Old colliery, Cockstool Bridge. In the NE quarter of the map is Darfield, with Snape Hill, where features include All Saints church, Wombwell Ings (now a valuable bird reserve); Darfield Bridge is in the top right corner, the River Dearne winding down the east edge of the map. Directories of Darfield and Wombwell are included on the reverse.
This map links up with sheets 275.13 Wombwell NW to the west and 283.02 Wombwell South to the south.
Follow this link for a complete list of our Barnsley 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 / 18 June 2007