Monument record 15791 - Earthworks in Holme Field and Meadow

<1> Environment Agency, 2003-2020, Environment Agency LiDAR Surveys, 1m Composite DSM First Return 2022 (Digital Archive). SCH7819.

A complex of parallel banks and troughs circa twelve metres wide from ridge crest to ridge crest, aligned either side of a straight bank circa seven metres wide and two hundred and fifty metres long. The pattern is more irregular at its south-eastern end and the eastern set of banks and troughs is bounded by a bank.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1871-1882, Ordnance Survey County Series (Epoch 1) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ4569, 1875 (Maps and Plans). SCH2462.

The earthworks appear, at least in part, predate the field boundaries depicted on this map.

<3> See map for surveyor, c.1837-51, Cheshire Tithe Maps and Awards, EDT 180/2 (date unknown) (Maps and Plans). SCH3266.

The earthworks appear, at least in part, predate the plot boundaries depicted on this map.

<4> Various, Various, Oral communication to the HER, Edwards R, 03/03/2023 (Oral Communication). SCH2330.

Possibly medieval broad ridge and furrow. However, it is also possible that this the surviving part of a bedwork water meadow dating from the seventeenth or eighteenth century. Notable that the earthworks respect and reflect the island like landform on the Gowy flood plain that Holme Farm occupies and which it takes its name from.