A folding Ordnance-Survey map of the Peak District and the surrounding areas, including the nearby towns of Buxton, Macclesfield, and Stockport. County boundaries are coloured on the map, delineating Cheshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire and South Yorkshire. Elevation is drawn using fine hachuring, making the hills and mountains appear almost three-dimensional.

As is common of Ordnance Survey maps from this period, the map is undated. However, the inclusion and exclusion of specific railway lines on the map offer us clues as to the publication date of this map. The Cromford and High Peak Railway, which was constructed to transport minerals between the Cromford Canal and the Peak Forest Canal, opened in stages between 1830 and 1832 and is marked on this map. The Manchester and Birmingham Railway, which also opened in stages between 1840 and 1846, reached Stockport in 1840 using a temporary station to the north of the city, later renamed Heaton Norris. This was Stockport's only station until 1843 when a new station was opened to the south of the city. Only the northern station is marked on this map, suggesting quite a precise date of 1840-1842.

This map is rich with detail, marking virtually every building, road, track, parkland, church, mine, and farm. It provides an excellent record of this part of Britain at the start of the Industrial Age with railways only just starting to connect the cities which would later form Britain's industrial heartlands.

Leather slip case included. Original hand-colour. [Folded] [GB2062]