Ledbury in 1926 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 town is in the centre of the map. Coverage stretches from Fairtree Farm in the east through to Ledbury Park in the west. From north to south is Newbury Park & the Mortuary Chapel & Cemetery. Features include St Katherine's Chapel, Belle Orchard House, Fairtree Farm, Dog Hill Wood, St Michael & All Angels Church, railway line & the Cattle Market. Main streets are New Street, The Homend, High Street & Worcester Road. On the reverse is a list of private residents, with extracts from a commercial directory. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Ledbury in 1926 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. The town is in the centre of the map & coverage stretches from Fairtree Farm in the east to Ledbury Park in the west; & north/south from Newbury Park to the Mortuary Chapel & Cemetery. Features include St Katherine`s Chapel, Belle Orchard House, Fairtree Farm, Dog Hill Wood, St Michael & All Angels Church, railway line & the Cattle Market. Main streets are New Street, The Homend, High Street & Worcester Road. On the reverse is a list of private residents, with extracts from a commercial directory. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: 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. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

Lee & Hither Green in 1870 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: this detailed map covers the area from Lewisham Park eastward to Lee Green. Features include Hither Green, Lewisham Park, Lee Green, Eastdown Park, Merchant Taylors' Almshouses, Manor House, Manor Farm, North Park Farm, Brick Works, The Castle pub, The Spotted Cow pub, etc. On the reverse is an 1866 street directory extracts for Burnt Ash Lane, Church Street, Eltham Road, Hamilton Terrace, Lee Park, & Lee Road. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Lee Miller`s work for Vogue from 1941-1945 sets her apart as a photographer & writer of extraordinary ability. The quality of her photography from the period has long been recognized as outstanding, & its full range is shown here, accompanied by her brilliant despatches. Starting with her first report from a field hospital soon after D-Day, the despatches & nearly 160 photographs show war-ravaged cities, buildings & landscapes, but above all they portray the war-resilient people soldiers, leaders, medics, evacuees, prisoners of war, the wounded, the villains & the heroes. There is the raw edge of combat portrayed at the siege of St Malo & in the bitterly fought Alsace campaign, & the disbelief & outrage Miller describes on witnessing the victims of Dachau. The wars horror is relieved by the spirit of post-liberation Paris, where she indulged in frivoluous fashions & recorded memorable conversations with Picasso, Cocteau, Eluard, Aragon & Colette. The book ends with Millers first-on-the-scene report giving a sardonic description of HItlers abandoned house in Munich, & the looting & burning of his alpine fortress at Berchtesgaden, which marked a symbolic end to the war. David E. Scherman, the renowned war photojournalist who shared many of Millers assignments, contributes a foreword. ...

A detailed topographic map of Leeds from the Ordnance Survey Explorer series, covering Harrogate, Wetherby & Pontefract. Edition A2; Publication date April 2010 About this series: These highly detailed maps show all the administrative boundaries, settlements as small as isolated farms, the road network down to unfenced roads & country tracks, & field boundaries (hedges & drystone walls) which make navigation across the countryside much easier. Steep gradients on roads are indicated. Various landmarks, e.g. powerlines, archaeological sites, windmills, churches & lighthouses are shown & additional graphics indicate natural terrain features such as cliffs, scree, mud & vegetation variations. The contour interval is 5 metres in the lower parts of the country & 10 metres in the uplands, & spot heights are marked. Each map covers an area of 30 x 20km (i.e. approx. 19 x 12 miles), with some double-sided maps covering more, as indicated in the individual descriptions. The maps are fully GPS compatible, with the National Grid shown at 1km intervals & latitude & longitude indicated by margin ticks at 1'. The Explorer series has replaced the earlier, green-cover Pathfinder maps. The Explorer series is now complete & covers all of Engl&, Wales & Scotl&. Some sheets for popular areas like the National Parks are still branded as Outdoor Leisure (OL) maps, but are now included in this series as the cartography is the same as that in the Explorer Maps. The Explorer maps offer a substantial improvement on the Pathfinder series, with greater use of colour, larger area per map, & stronger emphasis on information for ramblers & tourists. This series is ideal for walking & other outdoor pursuits & each map shows a large amount of information for ramblers & tourists. Public rights of way are shown (except in Scotland), together with other routes with public access: National Trails & Recreational Paths, permitted paths & bridleways, & selected cycle routes. Open access land created under the Countryside & Rights of Way Act 2000 is marked. Tourist information

Includes:: caravan & camp sites, Park & Ride locations, recreation/leisure/sport centres, museums, historic buildings, English Heritage & National Trust sites, rural pubs, etc. The map legend is in English only, except for the tourist information content which is also in French & German.

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A tourist map of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal & Aire & Calder & Calder & Hebble Navigations at 1:50, 000, with detailed town plans of Skipton, Bingley, Leeds, Wakefield, Mirfield, Brighouse & Sower Bridge at 1:12, 500. Suitable for both waterways & leisure users. This map gives detailed coverage of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, from Foulridge to Leeds, the Aire & Calder & Calder & Hebble Navigations from Leeds to Knottingley & Castleford to Sowerby Bridge with emphasis on the waterways & information useful & relevant to users of the waterways without neglecting other leisure users. The map detail is complimented by information panels & photographs. The Leeds & Liverpool Canal is a popular cruising route & although a lengthy canal to navigate or explore all in one visit, the settlements, canal features & ever changing landscapes along its route make it worthy of return visits by boat, car, bicycle or on foot. As with many of the canals on the system it is a canal of real contrasts, in places it is quiet & tranquil, in others vibrant & bustling. The canal skirts the Yorkshire Dales National Park near Gargrave, offering some of the most picturesque views anywhere on the network. It passes Saltaire, a World Heritage Site & at Bingley there`s the stunning Bingley Five Rise Locks considered one of the Wonders of the Waterways. From Leeds city centre the Aire & Calder heads past the regenerated Leeds Dock, home to the Royal Armouries Museum, south to Castleford. At Castleford Junction the main line heads eastwards to the port of Goole, via Knottingley (the extent of this map), whilst the Wakefield Branch heads westwards to Wakefield. Both the Aire & Calder & Calder & Hebble Navigations were originally rivers that were significant changed with numerous cuts to make them more viable for commercial traffic. It is due to the commercial nature of the waterway that the locks on the Aire & Calder are 200ft (61m) long. The Calder & Hebble runs for 21 miles between Sowerby Bridge & Wakefield, along alternating stretches of river & cuts. Places of interest include the waterside Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield, the basin at Sowerby Bridge with fine canalside buildings, covered docks & home to Shire Cruisers, Brighouse with interesting shops & buildings & split level basin, Salterhebble Locks featuring one of the very few functioning guillotine locks & a short arm into Dewsbury. To see the list of other titles in this series please, click on the series link. ...

A tourist map of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, from Liverpool to Keighley at 1:50, 000 with detailed town plans of Blackburn, Burnley, Skipton & Wigan at 1:12, 500 & suitable for both waterways & leisure users. This map gives detailed coverage of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, from Liverpool to Keighley, with emphasis on the waterways & information useful & relevant to users of the waterways without neglecting other leisure users. The map detail is complimented by information panels & photographs.
Includes: navigation & historical information, visitor moorings, marinas & boatyards, boat hire centres, facilities for the boat user, shops & distance markers. Information for the tourist

Includes:: tourist information centres, places of interest, pubs, nature reserves, parks, churches, long distance paths, public toilets & caravan & camp sites. For centuries the Pennines presented a barrier to cross country trade in the north. Eventually the growth of the cotton & textile industries led to the construction of a canal between Liverpool & Leeds. It was built as a broad canal which permitted wide beamed boats, capable of carrying greater loads, enabling it to be a success. Today the Leeds & Liverpool Canal is a popular cruising route & although a lengthy canal to navigate or explore all in one visit, the settlements, canal features & ever changing landscapes along its route make it worthy of return visits by boat, car, bicycle or on foot. As with many of the canals on the system it is a canal of real contrasts, in places it is quiet & tranquil, in others vibrant & bustling. The once shabby nearly unnavigable Liverpool end has been revitalised now that the Liverpool Canal Link is open, creating a passageway through an important historic city & port, whilst at the opposite end the waterfront area of Leeds is undergoing an exciting transformation.


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Pennine Waters Pearson`s Canal Companion from Wayzgoose, showing waterways connection Wigan, Leeds, Castleford, Sowery Bridge, Huddersfield, Ashton-under-Lymne & Selby including sections of Leeds & Liverpool Canal, the Aire & Calder Navigation, the Calder & Hebble Navigation, the Huddersfield Canals & the River Aire & Selby Canal. Pearson’s Canal Companions have for over 30 year now been presenting Britain’s network of inland waterways on handy size, informative guides which combine practical information with interesting descriptions & facts about the surrounding countryside. The routes are shown in sections on maps at approx. 2” to 1 mile, & are annotated with locks, towpaths & nearby facilities. Rather than providing a more technical picture of each waterway (depth, clearance, etc), these guides are indeed true “companions” with the accompanying descriptions full of interesting historical or literary references, little know facts, etc. Where appropriate the maps are also accompanied by recommendations for eating & drinking, shopping, things to do, & public transport connections. Each guide also

Includes:: a boating directory with hire bases, boatyards, ferries, etc. Please note: Pearson’s Canal Companions sometimes indicate facilities and/or places of interest without showing detailed road access to them; it’s perhaps advisable to use these charming companions with proper road maps of the surrounding countryside.

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A new edition in the AA's ground breaking series of street atlases, covering Leeds in a handy glovebox size. The atlas uses the latest digital data for Britain from Ordnance Survey & the AA & also

Includes:: National Grid Referencing as used by the emergency services. All of the maps clearly show recommended restaurants, hotels, one-way streets & car parks, with 24-hour petrol stations now highlighted. Featuring a clever use of colour to ensure they can be read under street lighting, these maps are all you need to keep you on the move.

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Leeds, Harrogate, Wetherby & Pontefract area on a detailed topographic & GPS compatible map No. 289, waterproof version, from the Ordnance Survey’s 1:25, 000 Explorer series.MOBILE DOWNLOADS: this title & all the other OS Explorer maps include a code for downloading after purchase the digital version onto your smartphone or tablet for viewing on the OS smartphone app.OS EXPLORER SERIES: to see the list of all the titles in the OS Explorer series, both paper & waterproof versions, please click on the series link. The Explorer series, Ordnance Survey’s most detailed maps recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities, provides topographic coverage of Great Britain at 1:25, 000 on GPS compatible maps with hiking trails, cycling routes & extensive tourist information. Each printed map is available either on paper or as a waterproof & tear-resistant OS Active Map, as indicated in its title. Britain’s National Parks & other areas of particular tourist interest are presented on often double-sided OL (Outdoor Leisure) maps, whilst most standard format Explorers cover an area of 30 x 20km (approx. 19 x 12 miles). All three versions (paper, waterproof & digital) are the same & provide plenty of recreational & tourist information, indicating the traditional public right of way paths (except in Scotland where different laws apply), including bridleways & byways. National Trails & other long-distance paths are marked, as well as permissive footpaths or bridleways & on-road or traffic-free cycle routes with, where appropriate, their National/ Regional Cycle Network numbers. Boundaries of access land are clearly marked. A wide range of symbols provides additional tourist information, highlighting camping & caravanning sites, information offices & visitors’ centres, parking & picnicking places, country pubs, sport & recreational facilities including cycle hire locations & mountain biking trails, historic buildings & museums, etc. Exceptionally clear presentation of the landscape is provided by contours at 5m or in the uplands at 10m intervals, with additional spot heights plus colouring and/or graphics for different types of woodlands, orchards, heath, marshl&, scree or boulders, & other topographic features. For GPS users the maps have British National Grid lines at 1km intervals, with latitude & longitude given by margin ticks at 1`. Clearly laid out map legend

Includes:: French & German translations for the tourist information symbols.

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