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Originally Posted by Retlaw
Ged off thats 53 years lots of things can be put on maps if they are refered to by that name.
I have quite a few old maps, and if you look at the small print at the bottom, you will see the surveying was done by army engineers. Names were supplied by local knowledge. When they were surveying the engineers would'nt know the names of the places they were setting up their theodolites on.
Those army men did not draw the maps, all their findings were sent to the cartographers, who then drew the maps, and added place names. The 1848 Ordnance survey of Accrington contains 27 mistakes.
Retlaw
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Hence Ancliff and Stannel for Antley and Stanhill on some of the old maps.
It does look though from what I have uncovered that Alleytroyds was in existence under whatever name a couple of hundred years at least before
the late 1700s.