Monument record 1979/1 - Windmill Hill

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, SJ36 SE 6 (Index). SCH2487.

Grass and tree covered mound with a diameter of twenty metres and an average height of one metre and thirty centimetres. It is flat topped and resembles a windmill mound. No trace of a windmill remains.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1871-1882, Ordnance Survey County Series (Epoch 1) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ3561, 1873-1888 (Maps and Plans). SCH2462.

The mound is depicted on this map. To the immediate south is a rectangular depression c.70 metres long and 30 metres wide. Located on the southern side of the depression is a marl pit. The mound is defined by a ditch on it’s northern, western and eastern side. The depression may be the quarry pit associated with mound. The mound is named Windmill Hill.

<3> See map for surveyor, c.1837-51, Cheshire Tithe Maps and Awards, EDT 140/2 c.1842 (Maps and Plans). SCH3266.

This map depicts a circular tree covered feature c.30 metres wide at this location.

<4> Bryant, A., 1831, Map of the County Palatine of Chester (Maps and Plans). SCH2114.

Possibly the Coppy Trees depicted and named on this map.

<5> Cheshire Historic Environment Record, 1989, Jill Collens' Aerial Photographs, 6.0579 (Aerial Photograph). SCH9711.