Scunthorpe — Scunthorpe Map Poster & Print

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Scunthorpe Map Poster & Print

From above, Scunthorpe looks like a town that grew in a hurry. Terraced streets and interwar estates spread along higher ground above the Trent valley. To the east, the steelworks cover a huge area of sheds, sidings and storage yards, a pattern almost as large as the housing itself. That contrast between the fine grain of homes and the sheer scale of industry is what makes the map so recognisable.

The town took shape in the nineteenth century after ironstone was found under the local farmland. The villages of Scunthorpe, Frodingham, Brumby, Crosby and Ashby slowly grew into one another. On the map you can still pick out their old centres as small knots in the street pattern, linked by long roads that once crossed open fields. The football club, Scunthorpe United, is still known as the Iron.

A Scunthorpe map poster turns all of this into black lines on white. It shows the rail lines curving in to feed the works, the motorway spur arriving from the south, and the parks and playing fields that break up the housing. At the western edge, open land slopes down towards the river. It is a portrait of a working town, drawn without decoration.