Monument record 15071 - Site of Brick and Tile Yard

<1> See map for surveyor, c.1837-51, Cheshire Tithe Maps and Awards, EDT 24/2, 1846 (Maps and Plans). SCH3266.

This map depicts two parallel rectangular buildings aligned east-west and a circular building to the immediate south. The plot is described as a 'brick and tile yard, shed and oven'.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1871-1882, Ordnance Survey County Series (Epoch 1) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ6881, 1877 (Maps and Plans). SCH2462.

None of the buildings are depicted on this map, but within the plot depicted on the tithe map (see 1), is a sub-square area of scrub or marsh.

<3> Various, Various, Oral communication to the HER, Edwards R 30/03/2020 (Oral Communication). SCH2330.

Brick and tile works with associated kiln (the circular building) and clay pit (the area depicted on the Ordnance Survey 1st edition (see 2). The ownership recorded on the tithe award (see 1) suggests that this was associated with the Arley Estate. The former extraction pit survives as a slight earthwork (see 4) and below ground archaeological remains associated with buildings may survive in this area.

<4> Bluesky International Ltd, 2010, 2010 Bluesky Survey, UXP_101017_7045, 17/10/2010 (Aerial Photograph). SCH5444.