Old Maps of the
Porter Brook
This page shows
maps of the Porter Brook and Porter Valley from Circa 1850
Click on a map
to find out more.
1a: From Peter
Wood to Fulwood Mills (Mayfield Brook)
1b: From Clough
Plantation to Clough Lane (Porter Brook)
2: From the confluence to Whitely Wood
3: From Whitely Wood to Bowser Bottom
4: From Bowser
Bottom to Porter House
5: From Porter
House to Ibbotson Wood
6: Smith’s Wood
7: Endcliffe
Wood
8: From Hunter’s
Bar to Stalker Wheel
9: The General
Cemetery
10: Bramhall
Lane and St. Peters
11: From Ponds
Lane to the Sheaf
These maps have been
obtained from www.old-maps.co.uk and tinted in Photoshop.
Any comments on
routing of the Brook, of goits or of naming of Dams or wheels would be
gratefully received.
Please e-mail
me with comments and feel free to send me pictures of or links to old maps
of the area.