
Middleton North in 1915 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 north of Middleton, stretching from the Cricket Ground eastward to the railway & from the Old Rectory northward to Stanycliffe. Features include Middleton Cricket Ground, Rochdale Road, Rochdale Canal, railway, old Grammar School, Acres, Stanycliffe, tramway, Boarshaw Mill, Irk Vale Chemical Works, Lower Touchethall, Little Green area, Boarshaw area, etc. Part of rural Chadderton is also included around Acres. A section of the commercial directory, entries A-O, is on the reverse. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25