A small extract from Map No. 5

Historical Canal Maps

This successful series is now established as a standard reference for transport and local historians needing reliable mapping of our inland waterways.  Researched and drawn by Richard Dean, they show the fullest extent of Britain's canal and river navigation network including all the mileage lost over the years, together with engineering features.

Based largely on original sources, they detail the type and position of the navigations and their branches with as much accuracy as the scale allows, also the routes of authorised and unfinished schemes.  The larger scale area sheets also mark basins, locks, bridges, aqueducts, wharves etc as built, together with available information on Acts and dates of opening and disuse.

Much of this information has not previously been readily available, and certainly not in such a concise and comprehensive form.  Please note these are not intended as walking or navigational maps, although they can readily supplement modern guides and add a wealth of interest to a hike or cruise.

Printed in black and red on tinted paper folded to 6" x 4", maps 3 & 5 are supplied in card covers, the others in a plastic sleeve.  The following have been published, with others planned:

No. 1 - INLAND NAVIGATION

The general sheet in the series, covering the whole of England & Wales at a scale of 8 miles to the inch and providing at a glance the full extent of the system past and present with opening dates and selected features.  Serves as the key sheet to the larger scale area maps.  34" x 24", double sided.  ISBN 0 947712 20 8.  Price £4.95

No. 2 - BIRMINGHAM CANALS    [Out of print - new edition in preparation - see Page 10]

No. 3 - CANALS OF MANCHESTER

Extends to Bolton/Rochdale/Diggle/Marple/Partington at a scale of 1:50,000 with inset enlargements of Salford, central Manchester, and other complex areas.  Includes the upper reaches of the Manchester Ship Canal and the many miles of underground levels in the Duke of Bridgewater's Worsley Collieries.  Connecting tramroads shown.  2nd Edn (revised and improved) ISBN 0 947712 12 7.  Price £3.00

No. 4 - CANALS OF LONDON

Includes the whole of the Regents, Grand Surrey, and Croydon Canals, the Lee and Dartford & Crayford Navigations, and the Grand Junction out to Uxbridge and Slough.  The development of the Lee, the many short brickworks branches from the GJC, and the persistent attempts to connect Romford to the Thames are all recorded.  Inset enlargement of Brentford.  ISBN 0 947712 12 29 1.  Price £3.00

No. 5 - CANALS OF NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE

The Trent & Mersey Canal from Wheelock to Great Haywood, with the Caldon, Uttoxeter, and Newcastle Canals.  Connecting tramroads also shown, including the successive lines from Caldon Quarries and those within the Potteries.  ISBN 0 947712 12 32.  Price £3.00