North of this is Barking Park. From here coverage extends a mile eastward into open country. The hamlet of Upney is bottom centre, with its Isolation Hospital, Manor Farm is to the NE. The LTS railway crosses the map west-east but no stations are shown.
A 1906 directory of Lanchester is included on the reverse. Co Durham Sheet 19.05b Lanchester 1915 – published 2017; intro by Neil Gander. Co Durham Sheet 19.05a Lanchester 1895 – published 1997; intro by Carolyn Ball.
This detailed map covers Purfleet, then a garrison village, where major features are Purfleet Barracks and Purfleet Camp. Also shown are the railway with Purfleet station, Purfleet Rifle Range station, Purfleet House, Botany, Royal Hotel, Military Hospital, rifle ranges, chalk quarries and industrial tramways. Tony Kirby provides an excellent history of the area, discussing its earlier days as a resort, and then how Purfleet Camp was established within weeks of the outbreak of World War 1.
Features include the municipal centre of East Ham, with Town Hall, Central Hall, tram depot, Baths and Technical College; to the east is part of Barking town centre, including the Abbey ruins and St Margaret’s church.
This detailed map, which is double-sided for maximum coverage, covers the southern party of Ferryhill, especially the community of Ferryhill station which developed following the opening of the railway, and its adjacent village of Chilton Lane. Features include Ferryhill station, Mainsforth Colliery, Chilton Colliery, Little Chilton, Mainsforth Lime Works, etc. The introduction by Alan Godfrey explores the development of the area’s railways and collieries, and the growth of Ferryhill Station, while also looking at the medieval history of Little Chilton.
We have published three versions of this map, showing how the area developed across the years. The River Roding runs north-south through the centre of the map, East Ham to one side, Barking to the other.
Features include Taff Vale Railway, Cardiff Railway, Barry Railway, stretch of Walnut Tree Branch, stretch of Pontypridd Caerphilly & Newport line, Nantgarw village, Nantgarw Colliery, Dyffryn-isaf, Glamorganshire Canal, pottery, etc.