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 Manvers Main:
This detailed map is dominated by Manvers Main Colliery, and the No.2 Pit is also shown further west. These are shown in some detail, with track layouts. The Dearne & Dove Canal runs through the map, as do several railways: Midland Railway, GCR Barnsley to Barnetby line, Swinton & Knottingley Loop, GCR Wath Curve. In the SE corner is Roman Terrace and small portions of Mexborough and Swinton. On the reverse we include about half of the 1930 map for the Manvers Main area, showing how the place developed.
This map links up with sheets 283.07 Wath upon Dearne to the west, 284.09 Mexborough to the east; and 283.12 Swinton to the south..
Follow this link for a complete list of our Barnsley area maps; here for the Rotherham 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.
Alan Godfrey Maps, Prospect Business Park, Leadgate, Consett, Co Durham, DH8 7PW / godfreyedition@btinternet.com / 7 August 2007