Wednesbury (Mesty Croft) 1902

Here are the details of maps for Mesty Croft: Staffordshire Sheet 68.02 a Mesty Croft 1888 - published 1990; intro by John Maddison. ISBN.978-0-85054-288-2 Staffordshire Sheet 68.02 b Wednesbury (Mesty Croft) 1902 - published 2009; intro by Malcolm Nixon. ISBN.978-1-84784-281-7 We have published two versions of this detailed map, showing how the area changed across the years. The map covers the Mesty Croft area east of Wednesbury, including the eastern edge of Wednesbury itself and the hamlet of Hall Green.. Features include the Tame Valley Canal, Hall Green area, Brunswick Park, Burrs Colliery, short stretch of LNWR line, tramways, Oakeswell Hall, South Staffordshire Tube Works, Hope Patent Tube Works, Imperial Tube Works, Globe Tube Works, Balls Hill Colliery, Millfield Colliery, Moorlands Colliery (disused), some mineral tramways, Friar Park Farm, old air shafts, old shafts etc. On the reverse of the 1888 version we include entries A-K from an 1889 directory of Wednesbury; on the 1901 version we include a list of private residents in Wednesbury from a 1912 directory.

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