See the difference a hundred and 20 years make! We've overlain the 1892 Ordnance Survey map on the modern map to show the dramatic changes to the Athersley landscape - then and now. See Victorian woodlands, railway lines, pits and farms appear from the past. Find out what used to be where your house is today.
Some of the roads are the same including the Barnsley to Wakefield Road. Parts of Laithes Lane, Laithes Crescent and Smithies Lane existed in 1892.
Some of the boundaries of Athersley North and New Lodge are defined by the routes of the Barnsley Coal Railway Extension and the Wharncliffe Woodmoor Colliery Branch. These were built between 1854 and 1892 to transport coal from Wharncliffe Woodmoor and other collieries.
There was a farm where Athersley South Primary School is today. Woodlands and fields occupied most of the land with the Victorian collieries built between 1854 and 1892 south of Athersley and at Carlton.
Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2014.
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