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 Elsecar:
This detailed map covers the villages of Elsecar and Jump, SE of Barnsley, together with several nearby hamlets. Coverage stretches from Jump eastward to Tingle Bridge, and southward to Elsecar Green. Features at Jump include St George's church, Milton Square, Kitroyd, Jump Valley, Arundel View, Flying Dutchman pub. Features at Elsecar include Holy Trinity church, Elsecar Green, Station Row, Old Row, Elsecar Works, Distillery Row, Simon Wood Colliery, Fitzwilliam Street, Reform Row, Cobcar Terrace. Railways include the GCR Elsecar Branch with Elsecar Goods station, and the Midland Railway Chapeltown Branch Extension with Elsecar & Hoyland station. Two railway inclines are shown, plus a good stretch of the Dearne & Dove Canal's Elsecar Branch. The following hamlets are included: Hemingfield, Tingle Bridge, St Helen's, Stubbin, Stubbin Bottom, New Houses (in SW corner). The eastern part of Hoyland Nether is shown, incl Town Hall, Manor House and King Street. Melvyn Jones describes this as "a classic British industrial landscape, reflecting the development of coal mining, iron manufacture, canal and railway development and house building for the workers over a period of more than 150 years". We include directories for Elsecar, Nether Hoyland, Hemingfield and Jump on the reverse.
This map links up with sheets 282.08 Hoyland Nether to the west.
Follow this link for a complete list of our Barnsley area maps; here for the Sheffield 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.
The Godfrey Edition / godfreyedition@btinternet.com / 18 June 2007