Hirwaun & Tower Colliery 1897-1903

Glamorgan Sheet 11.05 Hirwaun & Tower Colliery 1897-1903 - published 2009; intro by Derrick Pratt. This detailed map covers the small town of Hirwaun, which developed around the Hirwaun Coal & Iron Co.. Features here include the Gloucester Railway Wagon Works, St Lleurwg's church, High Street and town centre shown in detail, GWR railway with station, Hirwaun Common Railway, tramways, Tower Colliery with Tower Colliery Railway, Bute Pit (disused), Railway Inn, Hirwaun Ponds, Knobby Drift (disused), old mine workings, Tramway, routes of several old tramways, etc. On the reverse we include a directory of Hirwaun in 1906. The map is split between Glamorgan and Brecknockshire (Sheet 50.5) which explains the difference in revision date.

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