Hunslet 1905

Detailed map of Hunslet; Yorkshire sheet 218.10. Historical introduction by Gordon Dickinson. This detailed map covers the Hunslet area of south Leeds. Coverage stretches from Lady Pit Lane eastward to Frog Hall Farm and Wakefield Road, and from Jack Lane and Hillidge Road southward to Hunslet Cemetery. As usual there are many strreets of back-to-back housing - with individual houses clearly depicted - and other features include the Midland Railway running through the map, with station, sidings, connecting mineral lines; a stretch of the GNR Hunslet Branch; Leeds Steel Works, a major presence near the centre of the map; Hunslet Carr, with glass works and tannery; Woodhouse Hill; Stourton; Thwaite Gate, with Hunslet Forge; central Hunslet, incl St Mary's church, Hunslet Chemical Works, Hunslet Paper Mills and Old Mills, Crown Bottle Works, malthouses, tramways. To the west, across Hunslet Moor, is the Dewsbury Road area of Hunslet. As usual we include selected extracts from street directories, incl Balm Road, Church Street, Garnet Avenue/Grove/Place/Road/Terrace, Joseph Street, Low Road.

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