
Mossley in 1933 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 gives good coverage of Mossley, a cotton mill town which was important enough to become a borough in 1885. Features include both railways with Mossley station, Buckton Castle site, Micklehurst, Brook Bottom, Roughtown, Bottoms, Mossley Brow, numerous mills including Britannia Mills, Woodend Mills, Albert Mill, Waterton Mill, Albion Mill, Victoria Mill & many more, St George's church, St John's church, All Saints church, football ground, Market Place, tramways & depot, Mossley Cross, Town Hall, Highfield House, River Tame, Huddersfield Canal etc. A 1918 directory is on the reverse. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25