Site Event/Activity record ECH6416 - The Former Redsands Children's Centre Site, Willaston, Nantwich, Cheshire, CW5 6NE: Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment

Archaeological desk-based assessment, produced in March 2017, to assess the archaeological potential of land at the Former Redsands Children’s Centre, Crewe Road, Nantwich, Cheshire, in advance of further development on the site. The study site has remained on the periphery of the Early Medieval and later settlement foci and is likely to have been used for agricultural purposes. Historic mapping demonstrates that the study site continued to be used for agricultural purposes throughout the Post-Medieval and Modern period until Redsands Children’s Centre was developed within it in the 1970s. Redsands has been repeatedly extended and altered throughout the 20th and 21st century. Any archaeological evidence is expected to be limited to agricultural features (e.g. furrows and former field boundaries). On the basis of current evidence, this assessment has identified a low potential for the study site to contain any previously unrecorded buried archaeological remains of interest dating to all periods. (1)