Maps and Aerial Photos
This page contains a collection of maps and aerial photos of Garforth. At the top you can also find a Google map showing the location of many of the places mentioned on the main photo pages.
Google Map
Antiquarian Maps
Ordnance Survey Maps - High Quality
You may also be interested in the side-by-side mapping tools provided by the NLS, you can start here.
Remember to click the link next to ‘resolution’ rather than the thumbnail to see the largest image.
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- c.1850
- copyright
- Crown Copyright
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- 4000x2286px · 5.4M
OS 6" surveyed 1845-1847, published 1850
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- c.1892
- copyright
- Crown Copyright
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- 4000x2844px · 4.3M
OS 25" surveyed 1890 published 1892
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- c.1960
- copyright
- Crown Copyright
- resolution
- 4000x2857px · 5.5M
OS 6" 1949-1968. The lowthers are not shown on the 1958 map but are shown here and Springbank is not shown here but is on the 1962 aerial photos suggesting a date of c.1960 for this map.
Aerial and Satellite Photos
An aerial photo from the 1920s with an accompanying overlay.
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- 1920s
- copyright
- Unknown
- resolution
- 1183x866px · 786.1K
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- 1174x857px · 650.7K
An aerial photo dating from 1962 looking down on Garforth Bridge, Selby Road and Wakefield Road (taken during the same flight as the second image below).
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- 15/11/1962
- copyright
- Unknown
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- 2048x1536px · 1.0M
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- 2000x1500px · 1.3M
An aerial photo from 1962 with an accompanying overlay.
This is an interesting image in that you can see the Grange estate only half built
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- 15/11/1962
- copyright
- Unknown
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- 4000x2968px · 5.3M
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- 2000x1478px · 1.5M
