Monument record 7991 - Site of Blackhurst

<1> See map for surveyor, c.1837-51, Cheshire Tithe Maps and Awards, EDT 32/2, 1839 (Maps and Plans). SCH3266.

The 1839 tithe map for Baddiley township depicts five buildings at this location. The buildings appear to be arranged round a yard. The award records this plot as 'house, buildings, garden etc.'. Adjacent plots include 'well field' and 'nearer barn field'.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1871-1882, Ordnance Survey County Series (Epoch 1) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ5950, 1875 (Maps and Plans). SCH2462.

This map published in 1875 depicts an L shaped farmhouse with two small buildings to the immediate south-west, one of which may be a pig sty. To the immediate south-east of the farmhouse is a garden. To the immediate north-west of the house is a yard with four buildings arranged around its perimeter. A well is depicted c.130m north-east of the farmhouse in the field known as 'well field' (see 1). An unenclosed lane connects the farmstead to other farms and settlements to the north and south.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1896-1898, Ordnance Survey First Revision County Series (Epoch 2) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ5950, 1898 (Maps and Plans). SCH3848.

All the buildings have been demolished.

<4> Dodgson J McN, 1970-2, 1981, The Place-Names of Cheshire, vol. III, p.124 (Book). SCH3228.

The first documentary reference to Blackhurst (Blachurst) dates from 1314. There are two further references dating from the fourteenth century and further references dating to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.