DETAILED historic Ordnance Survey maps showing the Weardale and West Durham areas have been republished by a County Durham company.

One inch to the mile maps dating from 1903 cover Alston Moor and Upper Weardale and Lower Weardale and West Durham. They feature urban areas and villages, lead and coal mines, railways, lanes and tracks, old parish boundaries and descriptive essays by Robert Forsythe and David Butler.

They cost £1. 95 each. Contact Alan Godfrey Maps on (01207) 583388.