
Kilnhurst 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 covers the village of Kilnhurst, just north of Rotherham. The centre of the village is shown around Victoria Street & coverage extends north to Birdwell Flats & High Thorn, westward to Sandhill Farm, & east to Kilnhurst Bridge & Lodge Farm. The Midland Railway & GCR both run through the map, with stations at Kilnhurst, & between them is the Kilnhurst Cut canal. Other features include Albany Row, St Thomas church, part of the Swinton Iron & Steel Works, Kilnhurst Forge, Victoria Glass Works, Thrybergh Hall Colliery, Beechwood, Warren Vale Colliery Tramway, Holywell House, Piccadilly, Kilnhurst Pottery. On the reverse is a directory of Kilnhurst in 1902, notes from a Parish Magazine, & the poem ' Perils of the Mine' by John Veitch, a miner injured in Thrybergh Hall Colliery in 1937. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25