Monument record 14032 - Coal Mining at North End

<1> Historic England & Archaeological Research Services, 2017, Cheshire National Mapping Programme and Lidar Mapping Project: Sampling the Peak Fringe, Cheshire Plain and Mersey Valley, 1599259 (Digital Archive). SCH8172.

A post medieval coal mining site is visible on historic aerial photography and lidar imagery as a group of earthwork shafts and associated spoil heaps, linked in places by embanked or ditched trackways.

One of the mounds has previously been identified as a supposed barrow (see CHER 1590) but is probably a spoil heap. The three southernmost shafts and mounds are linked by a single trackway, embanked to the east and visible as a ditch flanked by banks in its western extents. The majority of features remain extant on the latest 2010 aerial photography though some are obscured by tree cover (see 2-4).

<2> Royal Air Force, 1944-1947, 1940s RAF Aerial Photographs from Operation Review, RAF/106G/UK/645 RS 4023, 11/08/1945 (Aerial Photograph). SCH8041.

<3> Environment Agency, 2003-2020, Environment Agency LiDAR Surveys, SJ9477 First Return, 19-22/04/2006 (Digital Archive). SCH7819.

<4> Next Perspectives, 2010, Aerial Photography for Great Britain, Next Perspectives APGB Imagery (2010), SJ9377, 17/10/2010 (Aerial Photograph). SCH8173.

<5> Higham N J, 1984-9, Professor Nick Higham's Aerial Photographs, 1988/2/2/7 (Aerial Photograph). SCH7659.