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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.

YORKSHIRE (West)

Dewsbury 1905
This detailed map covers the town of Dewsbury, one of West Yorkshire's 'big six' and a county borough until 1965. Most of the town is shown, with coverage stretching from Spinkwell Mills southward to Dewsbury Mills, and from Moor Bottom eastward to Leeds Road and Wakefield Road. The many features include Town Hall, Market Place, LNWR Leeds & Dewsbury line with station, LYR Dewsbury Branch with terminus, GNR station, LYR Ravensthorpe Branch with station at Scout Hill, River Calder, Tanhouse Chemical Works, Burgh Mills, cemetery, Headfield Mills, Saville Town, Aire & Calder basin, Town End, Calder Bank Mills, Cut End Mills, Saville Mills, Eastborough, Eightlands, The Flatts, West Town, Watergate, Daw Green, Crow Nest Park, Boothroyd with St John's church, Conyers Colliery, tramways and much more. A Midland Railway approach to the town (which became goods only) is shown as 'under construction'. A list of private residents from a 1904 directory is included on the reverse.