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Here are the details of maps for Rainhill: Lancashire Sheet 107.12 Rainhill 1906 - published 2012; intro by Kay Parrott. ISBN.978-1-84784-666-2 This detailed map covers the village of Rainhill, SW of St Helens, the place famous for the Rainhill Trials and the opening of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway. Features include railway with Rainhill station, Holt, Ivy Farm, Blundell's Hill (at foot of map), The Hall, St Ann's Church, gas works, Ritherup Farm, brass foundry, and the village centre shown in detail with each building neatly delineated. A 1918 directory of Rainhill is included on the reverse. The map links up with Lancashire Sheets 107.11 Whiston to the west.
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