Idle & Greengates 1906

Detailed map of Idle; Yorkshire sheet 202.09. Introduction by John Griffiths. This detailed map covers an area just NE of Bradford which includes parts of three parishes. The main village is Idle, within Bradford County Borough, and this is in the top left quarter of the map. Features here include the GNR Shipley Branch and station, Holy Trinity church, Castle Mills, Springfield Mill, The Green, Town End, Thorp, Union Mill, Castle Mills, Fourlands, while to the south is the hamlet of Springfield and St John's church. Further east is the village of Greengates, within Eccleshill parish, and features here include Holybrook Mills, Oak Lee Mills, Albion Mills, New Lane, Harrogate Road, St John's church. Beyond this our map includes part of Calverley parish (but not that village) including Ravenscliffe Mills, Calverley Carr, West Wood. Finally in the top right quarter of the map is Apperley Bridge, on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, including Dyehouse Fold, Valley Mill, Dyehouse Mill. On the reverse we include street directory entries for Albion Road, Bradford Road, The Green, Harrogate Road, Idle High Street, New Line (Greengates), New Street and Town Lane.

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