
Denton West in 1916 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. In this title: the map covers the western part of Denton & extends westward to east Gorton around Gorton Bridge. Features include tramways, a stretch of the Manchester & Ashton Canal, Brook Green, short stretches of the GCR railway, cemetery, Gorton Upper & Lower Reservoirs, Lancashire Felt Works, a stretch of the LNWR line with Denton station, Audenshaw Reservoir Nr.2 etc. On the reverse are street directory entries for Balmoral Drive, Heaton Street, Manchester Road, Oak Drive; plus a railway timetable for the Stockport-Stalybridge & Stockport-Manchester Victoria lines in 1897. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25