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Maps
MAPS COURTESY OF SAMUEL T STEWART
Extract from John Speed's 1610 Map of Leicestershire
John Cary (1754 – 1835) Map
Emmanuel Bowen’s County Map of 1756 shows Osgathorpe with added comment “Here is a Hospital for 6 clergy men’s Widows”.
Extract from John Prior's 1777 Map of Leicestershire which identifies a total of four lime kilns (represented by triangles) in the area of Ofgathorpe and Barrow Hill.
Extract from 1791 Charnwood Forest Canal Map by the canal’s engineer Christopher Stavely. It depicts the canal as a dotted red-line coming from Nanpantan, and bypassing Osgathorpe to a branch at Junction House, marked A. This went up to a 130 yard long railway track which entered the quarry for the purpose of transhipping the coal and lime into and out of the lime barges. Note the canal feeder link from Black Brook Reservoir completed in 1796 to provide more water for the canal.
Extract from the 1835 first edition O/S Map
1881 surveyed (1883 issued) O/S Maps
1925 O/S Map
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