Old Ordnance Survey Maps of Yorkshire

These detailed maps normally cover an area of about one and a half miles by one mile. Each map includes an introduction.

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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.

The map links up with 247.04 Earlsheaton to the north, 247.07 Thornhill Lees to the west and 248.05 Ossett to the east.

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