Monument record 7993/3 - Styperson Pool

<1> Environment Agency, 2003-2020, Environment Agency LiDAR Surveys, Composite DSM 1m 2020 (Digital Archive). SCH7819.

Pool or pools c.300 metres long and c.110 metres wide at the widest point. The pool is created by a short dam (25m x 10m), across a narrow valley, at the pool's western end. Approximately 50 metres from the western end of the pond is a broad (c.10m) causeway or dam crossing the pond on a north-north-east to south-south-west alignment.

<2> Burdett, P. P., 1777, A Survey of the County Palatine of Chester (Maps and Plans). SCH113.

The pool is not depicted on this map.

<3> Greenwood, C. & Greenwood J., 1819, Map of the County Palatine of Chester (Maps and Plans). SCH2115.

This map depicts the pool located on the southern side of Styperson Park (see CHER 7993/1).

<4> Bryant, A., 1831, Map of the County Palatine of Chester (Maps and Plans). SCH2114.

A building is depicted in the middle of the park (see CHER 7993/1) on the hill accessed by a road or track which runs south over the pool's dam or causeway.

<5> See map for surveyor, c.1837-51, Cheshire Tithe Maps and Awards, EDT 3/2 c.1850 (Maps and Plans). SCH3266.

<6> Ordnance Survey, 1871-1882, Ordnance Survey County Series (Epoch 1) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ9379, 1871-1873 (Maps and Plans). SCH2462.

This map depicts two sluices on the southern part of the causeway or dam and a further sluice on the dam. The building located on the northern side of the pool is labelled 'Boat House (Ruins)'.

<7> Various, Various, Oral communication to the HER, Watson, M. 08/08/2017 (Oral Communication). SCH2330.

The pool/s may be remnants of a later designed landscape (see CHER 7993/1).

<8> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Land Line and Master Map Vector Maps, 31/01/2023 (Maps and Plans). SCH4491.

<8> Various, Various, Oral communication to the HER, Edwards R, 21/01/2023 (Oral Communication). SCH2330.

The pond may date from the late eighteenth century or early nineteenth century, but may also, given the park's possible medieval origins, be based on an earlier medieval fish pond.