Monument record 7269 - Land owned by the Abbey of Dieulacres

<1> Oxford Archaeology North, 2010, Land at Sandbach, Cheshire East, Archaeological Desk Based Assessment, p.25-6 No.13 (Client Report). SCH5386.

A field numbered 806 is marked on the tithe map of 1841 with a dashed boundary. The field is named ‘Abbey Land. Part of Bakehouse and Pear Tree Meadow’ in the tithe award. This field and all the surrounding fields in the study area are listed as being owned by Charles Ingram Ford. The field is located to the immediate north east of Abbeyfields. The name of the field ‘Abbey Land’, the house ‘Abbeyfields’, and the road to the west ‘Abbey Road’ are all a reflection of the fact that this area once belonged to Abbey of Dieulacres near Leek in Staffordshire. The dashed field boundary line indicates that this boundary was out of use, probably as a result of the laying out of the park land associated with Abbeyfields. However, this may have been quite recent, as the plot is quite distinct in the tithe award.

<2> See map for surveyor, c.1837-51, Cheshire Tithe Maps and Awards, EDT 351/2a 1841 (Maps and Plans). SCH3266.

The plot (775) to the immediate north of plot 806 is called Abbey Field.

<3> Ormerod, G., 1882, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, v.III p.100 (Book). SCH1389.

'The house, which derives its appropriate designation from a field nearly contiguous, which once formed part of the possessions of the abbey of Dieulacres...'

<4> Various, Various, Oral communication to the HER, Edwards, R 30/07/2013 (Oral Communication). SCH2330.

This is a record of the placename evidence for ownership by the Abbey of Dieulacres, rather than those buildings and features to which the placenames relate.

<5> Dodgson J McN, 1970-2, 1981, The Place-Names of Cheshire, vol.II P.269 (Book). SCH3228.

Abbeyfield 1819, a house named from Abbey Field, The Abbott's Field and Abbey Field and Land - land owned by Dieulacres Abbey.