Monument record 4538 - Godewyneslegh

<1> Various, Aerial photographs (Aerial Photograph). SCH128.

Visible on this aerial photograph are a group of house platforms, boundaries and an area of ridge and furrow, surviving as earthworks. To the immediate east is a small sand quarry. The earthworks are located 200m north of Gonsley Green Farm and there is further quarrying between the farm and the earthworks.

<2> Huntings Surveys Ltd, 1971-1973, 1971-1973 County Survey, Run 33, no. 2527 (Aerial Photograph). SCH4881.

The earthworks are only faintly visible on this aerial photograph.

<3> Bluesky International Ltd, 2010, 2010 Bluesky Survey (Aerial Photograph). SCH5444.

The earthworks have been largely ploughed out.

<4> Dodgson J McN, 1970-2, 1981, The Place-Names of Cheshire, Vol.III, p.52 (Book). SCH3228.

The name Gonsley Green also derives from Godewyneslegh, first metioned in 1311 AD.

<5> Ormerod, G., 1882, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol. III p.513 (Book). SCH1389.

May represent the lost hamlet or small subordinate manor of Godwinsley spelt Godewyneslegh.