
Loughborough in 1901 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 is double-sided. The main map covers most of the town, extending from Cobden Street westward to Knight Thorpe Hall & Burleigh Hall, & from Cambridge Street southward to Mountfields House & Corporation Road. Features include LNWR Charnwood Forest Branch with terminus, Southfields, Queens Park, Convent, New Walks, Grammar School, All Saints church, Town Hall, Market Place, St Peter's church, Workhouse, Burleigh Fields, Midland Horticultural Works, end of Loughborough Canal with Regent Wharf etc. On the reverse is a portion of adjacent sheet 18.05 extending coverage eastward to include Great Central Railway with station, & Elm Park. (Note that the Midland Railway is not on the map.) About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25