Leigh-on-Sea 1921

This detailed and very busy map covers Leigh-on-Sea, west of Southend. Coverage stretches from Sunningdale Avenue and King's Road westward to Herschell Road. The many features include the railway with Leigh station, the old village centre, old saltings and fish ponds, Ship Hotel, Lapwater Hall, St Clement's church, tramway, Council Offices, Leigh Cliffs, St Michael's church, many schools, cinemas, chapels etc. Ian Yearsley's introduction gives a good description of Leigh's development from a village into a substantial town. The map links up with sheets 91.01 Westcliff-on-Sea to the east.

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