Monument record 15266 - The Knabb, Kingsley

<1> Keogh, DB, 2018-, GeoDetective, http://geodetective.co.uk/the-knabb-kingsley/ (Web Site). SCH8713.

"The Knabb, is a made footpath alongside a stream starting at Guest Slack road and ending at Dark Lane. The path is on the left bank of a strongly flowing stream, some 30 cm deep for most of its length, with deeper parts where it crosses small rapids. Where the path descends quite steeply, the stream loses its straight course, widens and appears natural "

"..Above the fall in slope, over half the length of the banks are lined with sandstone blocks, usually some 0.5m high, excluding what lies below the water-level and stream bed."

<2> Keogh, DB, 2018-, GeoDetective, http://geodetective.co.uk/the-knabb-stream-path-mill-and-hollow-way/ (Web Site). SCH8713.

"A path runs alongside a flowing stream, mostly straight for some 204m before assuming a natural course at a point where the path descends, and the stream continues a further 125 m then the path leaves to join Dark Lane. The stream, after a short, visible,stretch disappears via culverts and housing, to continue northwards to eventually feed the mill at Kingsley."

This article details the geographic features of this routeway and stream and proposes the path may once have been a packhorse route.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1871-1882, Ordnance Survey County Series (Epoch 1) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ5474 1874 (Maps and Plans). SCH2462.

Footpath is marked on Ordnance survey maps from the late 19th to early 20th Centuries

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1896-1898, Ordnance Survey First Revision County Series (Epoch 2) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ5474 1898 (Maps and Plans). SCH3848.

<5> Ordnance Survey, 1909-1912, Ordnance Survey Second Revision County Series (Epoch 3) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ5474 1910 (Maps and Plans). SCH4361.