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Re: Where is "this" parish?

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On 26/03/17 20:22, Roger Mills wrote:
> On 26/03/2017 18:27, Ian Goddard wrote:
>> On 26/03/17 16:55, Roger Mills wrote:
>>
>>> [Incidentally, churches don't now appear to be shown on online versions
>>> of Ordnance Survey maps. How long has that been the case?]
>>
>> Where are you looking online?
>>
>> www.streetmap.co.uk, search for Holmfirth.
>>
>> It shows a church with tower (Holmfirth parish church) in the middle of
>> Holmfirth, another to the west (St Johns, Upperthong), a church without
>> tower at c 11 o' clock from the parish church (Holmfirth Methodist) and
>> another further north (Wooldale Methodist). Scrolling up shows 2 more in
>> Wooldale including the Friends' Meeting house & the parish church in
>> Netherthong. Scrolling right shows another adjacent to the main road to
>> New Mill (Lydgate Presbyterian) and New Mill parish church with tower.
>>
>> All present and correct.
>>
>> Zooming in they do disappear at the intermediate scale but at the
>> largest scale they're marked PW.
>>
>
> You are absolutely correct - I was getting confused - sorry!
>
> I was looking at the maps on the Walkhighlands site and hadn't noticed
> that their 1:50k maps are now provided by OpenStreetMap rather than OS.
> Their 1:25k maps are genuine OS, and *do* show churches, as expected.

That's why I always recommend streetmap.co.uk.  Ironically they are real 
OS maps whilst Google & the rest are just street maps!

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Where is "this" parish? Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2017-03-26 06:38 +0200
  Re: Where is "this" parish? Graeme Wall <rail@greywall.demon.co.uk> - 2017-03-26 08:46 +0100
  Re: Where is "this" parish? Ian Goddard <goddai01@hotmail.co.uk> - 2017-03-26 09:06 +0100
    Re: Where is "this" parish? Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2017-03-26 12:36 +0200
      Re: Where is "this" parish? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2017-03-26 17:50 +0200
      Re: Where is "this" parish? Roger Mills <watt.tyler@gmail.com> - 2017-03-26 16:55 +0100
        Re: Where is "this" parish? Ian Goddard <goddai01@hotmail.co.uk> - 2017-03-26 18:27 +0100
          Re: Where is "this" parish? Roger Mills <watt.tyler@gmail.com> - 2017-03-26 20:22 +0100
            Re: Where is "this" parish? Ian Goddard <goddai01@hotmail.co.uk> - 2017-03-27 09:42 +0100
              Re: Where is "this" parish? Terry Wells <terrywells@csi.com> - 2017-03-28 18:06 +0100
                Re: Where is "this" parish? Ian Goddard <goddai01@hotmail.co.uk> - 2017-03-28 20:41 +0100
                Re: Where is "this" parish? Terry Wells <terrywells@csi.com> - 2017-03-29 00:46 +0100
        Re: Where is "this" parish? Richard Smith <richard@ex-parrot.com> - 2017-03-28 15:58 +0100
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