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 Kilnhurst:
This detailed map covers the Yorkshire village of Kilnhurst, just north of Rotherham. The centre of the village is shown around Victoria Street and coverage extends north to Birdwell Flats and High Thorn, westward to Sandhill Farm, and east to Kilnhurst Bridge and Lodge Farm. The Midland Railway and GCR both run through the map, with stations at Kilnhurst, and between them is the Kilnhurst Cut canal. Other features include Albany Row, St Thomas church, part of the Swinton Iron & Steel Works, Kilnhurst Forge, Victoria Glass Works, Thrybergh Hall Colliery, Beechwood, Warren Vale Colliery Tramway, Holywell House, Piccadilly, Kilnhurst Pottery. On the reverse is a directory of Kilnhurst in 1902, notes from a Parish Magazine, and the poem 'Perils of the Mine' by John Veitch, a miner injured in Thrybergh Hall Colliery in 1937.
This map links up with sheet 283.12 Swinton to the north.
Follow this link for a complete list of our 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