Hereford 1885

Detailed map of Hereford; Herefordshire sheet 33.16a (Coloured Edition). Historical introduction by Malcolm Nixon. Coverage stretches from Barton station eastward to Hafod Road, and from South Bank Road southward to Bartonsham. The 1885 version is fully coloured, taken from the beautiful handcoloured First Edition OS map. Features include Cathedral, city centre with individual buildings neatly shown, Bartonsham area, River Wye, GWR railway with Barton station, stretch of GWR Hereford & Gloucester branch (but not station), Cathedral Close, part of Blackmarstone, part of Hampton Park, Moorfields, High Town, cattle market, etc. We include extracts from a 1905 directory on the reverse.

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