Monument record 7066 - John Ackerley's Croft

The 1839 tithe map for Bickerton township depicts a small farmstead comprising seven small fields and two buildings. The accompanying award records this farmstead as belonging to Sir Phillip de Malpas Grey Egerton and occupied by John Ackerley (1).

The farmstead is still extant on the 1911 Ordnance Survey 25" to 1 mile map (2), but by 1940 the remaining building has been demolished and the majority of the small fields amalgamated into one field (3).

The farmstead is depicted on the map which accompanies the 1854 Enclosure Award (4).

This farmstead was probably created by the encroachment of the township's common. Some of the field boundaries survive (5).

<1> See map for surveyor, c.1837-51, Cheshire Tithe Maps and Awards, EDT 46/1&2 (Maps and Plans). SCH3266.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1909-1912, Ordnance Survey Second Revision County Series (Epoch 3) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, 05SJ5053 - 1911 (Maps and Plans). SCH4361.

<3> GeoInformation Group, 1940, Luftwaffe Aerial Photographs (Aerial Photograph). SCH5167.

<4> See map for surveyor, 1762-1898, Cheshire Enclosure Maps and Awards, QDE 1/3 & QDE 1/36 (Maps and Plans). SCH1106.

<5> Various, Various, Oral communication to the HER, Edwards R 28/08/2012 (Oral Communication). SCH2330.