Cardiff (Canton & Riverside) 1940

Glamorgan Sheet 43.14 Cardiff (Canton & Riverside) 1940 - published 2008; intro by Alan Godfrey. This very detailed map covers the Canton area and part of the Riverside area of Cardiff. Coverage stretches from Cathedral Road and Neville Street westward to Victoria Park, and southward to Virgil Street. Features include Canton railway depot with engine shed, carriage sheds, turntable, sidings etc; Ninian Park football ground, St John's church, tramways, City Isolation Hospital, Canton Brick Works, Ely River, St Luke's church, malthouse, slaughter-house, cinemas, City Lodge, Leckwith Road and many streets of terraced housing, with individual houses neatly delineated. On the reverse we include extracts from a 1906 street directory, incl for Alexander Road, Atlas Road, Cowbridge Road, Beda Road, Craddock Street, Leckwith Road. Crwys Road, Diana Street, Donald Street, St Andrew's Crescent, Wyeverne Street.

Reduced from the original Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map to a scale of approximately 1:4,340 (or about 15" to the mile). This edition published by Alan Godfrey Maps, Leadgate, Consett