Monument record 7869/2/2 - Hall o' Lee Colliery - Possible Tramway

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1896-1898, Ordnance Survey First Revision County Series (Epoch 2) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ8456, 1899 (Maps and Plans). SCH3848.

This map of 1899 depicts a straight and partially embanked access linking the colliery to the site of an old coal shaft (CHER 7869/1/1) to the south-east, immediately adjacent to Mow Lane.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1909-1912, Ordnance Survey Second Revision County Series (Epoch 3) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ8456, 1909 (Maps and Plans). SCH4361.

This map of 1909 depicts this access as curving at its south-eastern end and joining Mow Lane.

<3> Various, Various, Oral communication to the HER, Edwards R, 11/01/2017 (Oral Communication). SCH2330.

Although neither of the historic maps (1 and 2) depict this as a tramway, the straightness of the route and the use of embanked sections to afford a level surface suggest that, if only a briefly, this access once had rails and formed part of the colliery's network of tramways.

<4> Environment Agency, 2003-2020, Environment Agency LiDAR Surveys, 1m DTM composite (Digital Archive). SCH7819.

No earthworks associated with this feature survive.

<5> Historic England & Archaeological Research Services, 2015, Staffordshire National Mapping Programme and Lidar Mapping Project: Gnosall, Kidsgrove and Talke, 1593238 (Digital Archive). SCH9202.

A post medieval tramway is visible as earthworks on air photographs and 1 metre resolution lidar centred at SJ 8409 5658. The tramway serves Hall O Lee Colliery (UID 1593239 [see CHER 7869/1/0]) and a second unnamed colliery (UID 1593240 [see CHER 7869/1/1]). The tramway extends to the Macclesfield Canal and was mapped as part of the Staffordshire National Mapping Programme Project. The tramway is also depicted on historic Ordnance Survey mapping. Part of the tramway is extant on the latest 2010 vertical photography [see 7], but much of the earthwork is masked by tree cover (see 2 & 6).

<6> Royal Air Force, 1944-1947, 1940s RAF Aerial Photographs from Operation Review, RAF/CPE/UK/1935 FS 2419 17/01/1947 (Aerial Photograph). SCH8041.

<7> Next Perspectives, 2010, Aerial Photography for Great Britain, Next Perspectives APGB Imagery (2010) (Aerial Photograph). SCH8173.