Old OS Town Plans of Manchester

  • For a few areas of Liverpool and Manchester we have also reprinted some of the very early Five-foot plans. Originally published at a scale of 1:1056 or 5 feet to the mile, we have reduced them in scale to 1:1760 or a Yard to the Mile. The maps, though covering quite a small area, are quite wonderfully detailed, showing such features as capstans and mooring posts, lamp-posts, the layouts of back yards, and even the interior of certain buildings such as churches. For the urban historian they are perhaps the most fascinating maps ever published by the Ordnance Survey.
  • Maps can be purchased on our On-line Mapshop.

    • Here are the details of maps for Manchester Oldham Road:

  • Manchester & Salford Sheet 24 Manchester (New Cross) 1849 - published 1988; intro by Chris Makepeace. ISBN.978-0-85054-312-4

    This extremely detailed map covers the area of Manchester around Oldham Road, with coverage stretching from Shude Hill eastward to Livesey Street, and from Style Street and Rochdale Road southward to Great Ancoats Street. Major features include Oldham Road Goods station with all railway lines, turntables etc shown; Smithfield Market, Manchester Union Industrial Workhouse, Cheese Market & Night Asylum, Cable Street Mill, St George's Road Chapel, Angel Meadow School, Manchester Baths, Manchester Mills, St Michael's Church, St George's Road Chapel, Murray's Mills, Bee Hive Mill, Oldham Road Police Station (even showing the cells), St George's Church, Oldham Road Chapel, Phoenix Works, Flint Glass Works etc. On the reverse we include street directory entries for George-Leigh Street, Oldham Road, Shudehill, Rochdale Road.

    The map links up with Manchester Sheets 23 Manchester Victoria to the west, 25 Ancoats N to the east and 29 Piccadilly to the south.

  • Follow this link for a complete list of our Manchester Town Plans or here for other maps of Manchester.
  • You can order maps direct from our On-line Mapshop. For other information and prices, and other areas, go to The Index Page.
  • Maps in the Godfrey Edition are taken from the 25 inch to the mile map and reduced to about 15 inches to the mile. For a full list of maps for Lancashire, return to the North West page.
    The Godfrey Edition / sales@alangodfreymaps.co.uk / 1 Feb 2018