Monument record 14034 - Coal Mining at Cliff Hill

<1> Historic England & Archaeological Research Services, 2017, Cheshire National Mapping Programme and Lidar Mapping Project: Sampling the Peak Fringe, Cheshire Plain and Mersey Valley, 1600965 (Digital Archive). SCH8172.

Extensive post medieval coal mining is visible as extractive pits,shafts and associated spoil mounds, surviving as earthworks on historic aerial photography. Some of the features remain extant on the latest 2011 vertical imagery whilst others are not visible due to recent vegetation cover.

The mining appears to take the form of both larger extractive pits and smaller shafts, with shaft mounds and larger spoil heaps. The extraction sites are isolated or located in smaller clusters in the north of the area, with a much larger concentration located on the eastern slopes of Cliff Hill (see 2-4).

<2> Royal Air Force, 1944-1947, 1940s RAF Aerial Photographs from Operation Review, RAF/106G/UK/645 RP 3066, 11/08/1945 (Aerial Photograph). SCH8041.

<3> National Remote Sensing Centre Ltd, 1992-3, National Remote Sensing Centre County Survey (1992-1993), Line 35 no.257 & Line 36 no.015, 31/10/1992 (Aerial Photograph). SCH5297.

<4> Next Perspectives, 2011, Aerial Photography for Great Britain, Next Perspectives APGB Imagery (2011), SJ9374, 08/04/2011 (Aerial Photograph). SCH8291.

<5> Higham N J, 1984-9, Professor Nick Higham's Aerial Photographs, 1988/2/2/9-10 (Aerial Photograph). SCH7659.

<6> Greenwood, C. & Greenwood J., 1819, Map of the County Palatine of Chester (Maps and Plans). SCH2115.

Depicts two coal pits at the junction of Cliff Lane and Calrofold Lane.