Monument record 153/2/2 - Nowell and Sons Quarry Tramway

<1> Macclesfield Canal Society, Unknown, Macclesfield Canal, https://www.macclesfieldcanal.org.uk/construction (Web Site). SCH9321.

In 1828 Messrs. Nowell and Sons were reported to have opened a quarry on Bosley Cloud, with an associated railway to the line of the canal, to extract stone for the construction of a section of the canal including the locks at Bosley. In 1830 the Macclesfield Courier reported that the arch of the aqueduct carrying the canal over the River Dane had been completed and was constructed of a "very superior stone…procured from the adjacent mountain".

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

This map depicts a tramway running from the junction of Cloud Side, Peover Lane and Tunstall Road to a point adjacent to the Dane Aqueduct on the Macclesfield Canal at Broken Bank. It is approximately 1.2 kilometres long.

<3> See map for surveyor, c.1837-51, Cheshire Tithe Maps and Awards, EDT 75/2, 1841 (Maps and Plans). SCH3266.

Not depicted on this map

<4> Various, Various, Oral communication to the HER, Edwards R, 21/12/2022 (Oral Communication). SCH2330.

Located from a rectified extract from Bryant's map (see 2). Location is approximate and no corresponding earthworks or cropmarks have been identified from the usual sources.