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 Hoyland Common:
This detailed map covers the village of Hoyland Common, a few miles south of Barnsley, together with the western half of Hoyland Nether, including its High Street. Coverage extends northward to Upper Hoyland, westward to Rockingham Colliery, shown in good detail with railway track layout. Features at Hoyland Common include Tankersley Common Side, Market Place, Hoyland Road and the streets leading off it, with all houses (many of them clearly very small) neatly delineated, schools, Hare & Hounds Inn, Stead Farm. Several hamlets are shown: West Bank, Prospect Place, Hawshaw Terrace, Royston Hill, Upper Hoyland, Milton. St Peter's church, on Hawshaw Lane, is near the centre of the map. Features at Hoyland Nether include St Andrew's church, Hoyland Hall, Hoyland Green, Ryecroft Place, Market Street, Primrose Hill. On the reverse we include directories for Nether Hoyland and Tankersley.
This map links up with sheets 283.05 Elsecar to the east.
Follow this link for a complete list of our Barnsley area maps; here for the Sheffield 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