Monument record 15725 - Ridge and Furrow in Macclesfield Forest and Wildboarclough Parish

<1> Historic England & Archaeological Research Services, 2017, Cheshire National Mapping Programme and Lidar Mapping Project: Sampling the Peak Fringe, Cheshire Plain and Mersey Valley, 1600776 (Digital Archive). SCH8172.

Medieval and/or post medieval ridge and furrow and narrow ridge and furrow within the parish of Macclesfield Forest and Wildboarclough is visible as earthworks and cropmarks centred at approximately SJ 972 732 on vertical aerial photography and lidar. Some of the earthworks appear to have been levelled by the latest 2011 aerial imagery (see 5). The ridge and furrow is associated in two places with field boundaries (UIDs 1600852 and 1600874) and cut by later hollow ways at one location (UID 1600824) (see 2-5).

<2> Royal Air Force, 1945-1979, RAF Aerial Photographs, RAF/58/1784 F21 0026 10/06/1955 (Aerial Photograph). SCH8316.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Various, Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs, OS/66106 V 0687 29/05/1966 (Aerial Photograph). SCH8310.

<4> Environment Agency, 2003-2020, Environment Agency LiDAR Surveys, SJ9572 FIRST RETURN 25/05/2007 (Digital Archive). SCH7819.

<5> Next Perspectives, 2011, Aerial Photography for Great Britain, Next Perspectives APGB Imagery (2011), SJ9572 08/04/2011 (Aerial Photograph). SCH8291.