Ferrybridge 1905

Detailed map of Ferrybridge; Yorkshire sheet 235.09. Introduction by John Goodchild. This detailed map covers the centre and northern part of Ferrybridge, well known as an important stop on the Great North Road, but also busy as a transhipment point where the Knottingley & Goole Canal joins the River Aire. Coverage of this map runs from the station northward to Low Street, Brotherton. Features include the canal and Ferrybridge Lock, the actual Ferry Bridge, St Andrew's church, West Riding Pottery, Australian Pottery, Ferrybridge Pottery, The Square, Fishergate, Town's Street, Strangland Lane, Holmfield Lane, Fryston Cottage. By way of contrast, on the reverse we include a large section of the earlier edition of this map, showing how the area looked in 1890. Directories of Ferrybridge and New Fryston are also included. On the reverse an extract from the 1893 map.

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