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Old Ordnance Survey Maps

A selection of highly detailed "Old Ordnance Survey Maps", taken from the 1/2500 plans and reprinted at approximately 14" to the mile.

We are frequently asked what the maps actually show-if a particular village or street-sometimes-even an individual house! We have been asked to supply the map with the customers house exactly in the centre! Seldom are large scale maps available showing villages - they simply would not be viable . With the best will in the world we cannot answer all these questions or assist in your particular research. But it really is amazing the detail this series of maps show - bearing in mind the low cover price. We will always try and help where possible, but do bear the above points in mind when enquiring.

KENT

Sidcup 1908
This detailed OS map covers the area from Stafford Road eastward to Foots Cray Place, and from Manor Road southward to Frognal Corner. St John's church, Place Green and the Manor House are in the centre of the map, with Sidcup itself to the NW, and part of Foots Cray to the SE. Features include Sidcup High Street, part of Foots Cray High Street, All Saints church, Longlands Nursery, Sidcup Place, Hatherley Road, Christ Church and Christ Church Road, Main Road, The Drive, Ursula Lodges. Also extensive grounds around Foots Cray Place, an elegant house built in the style of the Palladian Villa Rotunda at Vicenza in 1754, for a London pewterer Bourchier Cleeve, but demolished after a fire in 1949; the grounds include The Canal. A mill at Foots Cray dated from 1767 and is shown here in use as a Photographic Film Manufactory. The map is therefore interesting for showing the still growing suburb of Sidcup but also much of the old village of Foots Cray. On the reverse we include directories for Clarence Crescent, Clarence Road, Granville Road, Hadlow Road, Hatherley Road, High Street, Sidcup Hill, Sidcup Green.