Ossett (SW) & Combs 1905

Here are the details of maps for Ossett SW: Yorkshire Sheet 247.08 Ossett (SW) & Combs 1905 - published 2009; intro by Alan Godfrey. ISBN.978-1-84784-216-9 This detailed map covers the SW area of Ossett around Runtlings Lane, with coverage continuing westward towards Thornhill (but not including the church or old hall). Features include Combs Colliery (scene of a major disaster in 1893), the later Thornhill Hall, Calder & Hebble Navigation, gas works, Scarr End Mill, River Calder, Inghams Siding, Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, Mitchell Laithes Farm, smallpox hospital, Healey Old Mills, Calder Vale Mills, GNR Ossett & Dewsbury branch, Chickenley Heath Branch, old coal pits, Westfield Mills (in top right corner), railway under construction etc. Directories of Ossett and Thornhill in 1889 are included on the reverse.

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