Monument record 14387 - Linear Cropmarks on Sandbach Heath

<1> Cheshire Historic Environment Record, 1990-2001, Jill Collens and Rob Philpott's Aerial Photographs, LM 90.2006, 10/08/1990 (Aerial Photograph). SCH5403.

Two parallel and almost continuous linear cropmarks defining c.320m of a road or trackway orientated north-east to south-west. A small number of linear cropmarks, possible field boundaries, join these features at ninety degrees.

<2> See map for surveyor, c.1837-51, Cheshire Tithe Maps and Awards, EDT 351/2a c.1841 (Maps and Plans). SCH3266.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1871-1882, Ordnance Survey County Series (Epoch 1) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ7661, 1875 (Maps and Plans). SCH2462.

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

<5> Greenwood, C. & Greenwood J., 1819, Map of the County Palatine of Chester (Maps and Plans). SCH2115.

<6> Various, Various, Oral communication to the HER, Edwards R, 01/11/2018 (Oral Communication). SCH2330.

These features do not correspond with any boundaries depicted on historic nineteenth century maps (see 2 and 3). Sandbach Heath was enclosed sometime between 1777 and 1819 (see 4 and 5). Therefore it is probable that these features relate to an existing field system at the fringe of the heath which was remodelled during the enclosure of the open heath. However, there is always the possibility that they are of some antiquity.