A superb resource for those interested in exploring old maps is the web site Old Maps Online http://www.oldmapsonline.org
Searching for "Furness Vale" returned a huge number of maps of Cheshire from different periods. This map of 1843 is from the Ordnance Survey first series at a scale of 1:63360. There is a zoom facility view the map in detail. http://visionofbritain.org.uk/iipmooviewer/iipmooviewer_new.html?map=first_edition/lm_81
NAVIGATION
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- Manchester in Colour
- High Peak In Colour
- The Village in Colour
- Sale of the Jodrell Estate
- Growing Up In Buxworth
- The Cope Family Ventures in Buxworth
- Stage Carriage
- A Victorian Heroine
- Bugsworth Tales
- The Extraordinary Parish of Taxal
- Errwood Hall
- Memories Of Furness Vale by Brian Fearon
- Our Village's Own Railway
- Journey To The Centre Of The Earth and Other Stories by Cliff Hill
- The Middleton Family
- Some Village Photographs
- The Railway Photography of J. Wallace Sutherland
- Furness Vale Station
- The Auxiliary Hospitals.
- Churches And Chapels
- The Bridges of Furness Vale and Whaley
- Mapping The Village
- Manchester and Derbyshire film scenes
- The History Society Bookshop
- A Postcard From High Peak
- Dr Allen's Casebook
- Some Dove Holes History
- OVER THE HIGH PEAK RAILWAY
- A Holiday Resort - Whaley Bridge and Taxal
- Reuben Wharmby of Furness Vale
- A Computer Generated Village
- East Cheshire Past and Present by J. P. Earwaker (1880)
- Horwich End Gasworks
- Gowhole Sidings
- The 1867 New Mills Train Crash
- The Murder of William Wood
- Waterside
- A Library of books
- Goytside Farm