Old OS Town Plans of Bolton

  • This map is taken from the Ordnance Survey's highly detailed Five foot plans. Originally published at a scale of 1:1056 or 5 feet to the mile, we have reduced them in scale to 1:1760 or a Yard to the Mile. The maps, though covering quite a small area, are finely detailed, showing such features as capstans and mooring posts, lamp-posts, the layouts of back yards, and even the interior of certain buildings such as churches. For the urban historian they are perhaps the most fascinating maps ever published by the Ordnance Survey.
  • They are available through our On-line Mapshop

    • Here are the details of maps for Bolton Trinity Street:

  • Bolton Sheet 13 Bolton: Trinity Street & the River Croal 1847 - published 2025; intro by Alan Crosby. ISBN.978-1-78721-910-6

    This very detailed map covers the eastern part of central Bolton, from Trinity Church eastward to the River Croal, Haigh Hall and the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal. Other features include Rose Hill Colliery, Bolton Baths, Bradshawgate and the Bolton & Manchester Railway's Trinity Street station.

    On the reverse we include 10 foot to the mile sheet 87.13.15 covering the Bridgeman Place area in 1890, together with a 2,000 word introduction to the history of the area. Note that these 1890 maps on the reverse of Bolton sheets 8, 9, 12 and 13 are also designed to link up with each other.

    The map links up with sheet 9 Bolton Town Centre to the east and 12 Bolton Great Moor St to the south.

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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 Lancashire, return to the North West page.
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