Monument record 347/2/6 - Site of Royals Wood and Former Lodge Building

<1> See map for surveyor, c.1837-51, Cheshire Tithe Maps and Awards, EDT 290/2 c.1845 (Maps and Plans). SCH3266.

This map depicts a group of four buildings. The award describes the plot as 'House, Outbuildings, Yard, Gardens'.

<2> Bryant, A., 1831, Map of the County Palatine of Chester (Maps and Plans). SCH2114.

This map depicts this group of buildings and labels them as Royals Wood, distinct from Royals [Wood] Farm which is located to the north-east.

<3> Dodgson J McN, 1970-2, 1981, The Place-Names of Cheshire, Vol.III p.102 (Book). SCH3228.

The earliest references to Royals Wood dates from the twelfth century.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1871-1882, Ordnance Survey County Series (Epoch 1) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ5944, 1875 (Maps and Plans). SCH2462.

The buildings are no longer extant. The lodge is depicted.

<5> Chris Burnett Associates, 2012, Combermere Abbey, Parkland Plan: Final Parkland Plan, Fig. 5.7 (Unpublished Report). SCH6895.

This report reproduces a survey of Combermere estate landscape by Burgess and Bellyse (see 6) dating from 1848. The Royals Wood buildings are not extant on this map. This site corresponds with gazetteer entry no.50: 'The standing structural and buried remains of a former lodge located at the edge of Big Wood. The lodge was brickbuilt-mainly of red brick, but incorporating some grey engineering brick. A small complex of buildings (a house and outbuildings) is depicted on the tithe map of 1844. The house was probably rebuilt as a lodge when the adjacent land to the south was incorporated into Big Wood…'

<6> Burgess and Bellyse, 1848, Survey of Combermere Demesne (Maps and Plans). SCH8448.