Market Harborough 1899

Leicestershire Sheet 50.08 Market Harborough 1899 - published 2007; intro by Barrie Trinder. This very detailed map is double-sided for maximum coverage. The main map covers the centre of Market Harborough, including High Street, The Square, St Mary's Road, Northampton Road and Coventry Road. Features include the brewery, Fairfield Road, Bowden Steam Coffee Mills, Town Hall, malthouse, The Elms, tannery, banks, and all houses shown neatly delineated. Coverage extends northward to the Workhouse, southward to Nithsdale House, westward to the Leicestershire & Northamptonshire Union Canal. Other features include hosiery factory, Hill Crest, Union Wharf, New Harborough with streets under development, shoe factory. On the reverse we include part of adjacent sheet 51.05 extending coverage eastward to include the station (with track layout), engine shed, St Mary's church, Highfield House; the backing map also includes part of Little Bowden, incl Manor House, St Nicholas church, brick & tile works.

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