South Pembrokeshire as it was more than 90 years ago can now be revisited thanks to the re-publication of an old Ordnance Survey map by Alan Godfrey Maps, the County Durham-based historical map publisher.

South Pembrokeshire 1909 reproduces, on one sheet, the one inch to the mile scale Ordnance Survey maps for the area between Angle Bay and Tenby, including Linney Head, Pembroke, and Caldey Island, and land now part of the Castlemartin artillery range.

The map includes a remarkable amount of detail: the layout of towns and villages, railways and stations, inns and smithies, and an older landscape of often-complex parish boundaries, with country lane, farms, roads and tracks, woodland, cliffs and sandy burrows and much else besides.

Maps are the basis for any historical study and the accessible reprints are invaluable to local historians, genealogists, schools, and all who are interested in the history of Pembrokeshire.

The map includes an introductory essay by Dillwyn Miles describing the history of the area, as well as a large scale map extract (25" to the mile scale, reduced to 14" to the mile) showing the village of Castlemartin in 1906.

The map is the latest in the one inch series, which now includes 95 titles in England and Wales; sheets 192/209 St David's Peninsula, 210 North Pembrokeshire, 226/227 Milford Haven and District and 228 Haverfordwest and District are also available, all dated 1909. More than 1,400 old large scale (25" to 1 mile) maps have been published for towns and cities across the British Isles.

A deliberate attempt is made to keep the maps as reasonably priced as possible, they cost just £2.10 each.

South Pembrokeshire 1909 is available from good booksellers and by post from the publisher (add 50p for p&p per order) at Alan Godfrey Maps, Prospect Business Park, Leadgate, Consett, DH8 7PW (telephone 01207 583388 for further details).