Stowmarket 1903

Here are the details of maps for Stowmarket: Suffolk Sheet 56.07 Stowmarket 1903 - published 1998; intro by Anthony Breen. ISBN.978-0-85054-982-9 This detailed map provides good coverage of the Suffolk town of Stowmarket, with coverage extending eastward to Mill Street, Sheepcote Hall and Bramford Farm. Features on the map include Market Place, church, station, malthouses with railway sidings, Violet Hill, Abbot's Hall, Lockington House, Bury Street, Ipswich Street, California, River Gipping, the chemical works of Prentice & Co (who manufactured cordite for military use), Suffolk Iron Works. The map is notable for its many malthouses: more than 20 are shown, several with rail connections. On the reverse we include an 1896 directory to the town, including private residents and the commercial entry.

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