Monument record 15813/2 - Linear Earthworks South of Churches View Farm

<1> Historic England & Archaeological Research Services, 2022, Cheshire National Mapping Programme and Lidar Mapping Project: The Chester Environs, 1626060 (Digital Archive). SCH9186.

Medieval plough headlands and medieval or post-medieval field boundaries are visible as earthworks on historic vertical air photographs and lidar imagery in the south-west of the parish of Ashton Hayes and the north of the parish of Kelsall, centred at SJ 506 682. The majority of these are extant on the latest 2016 vertical photography (see 2-4).

<2> Ordnance Survey, Various, Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs, OS/68221 V 745 14/06/1968 (Aerial Photograph). SCH8310.

<3> Environment Agency, 2003-2020, Environment Agency LiDAR Surveys, First Return 21/11/2015 (Digital Archive). SCH7819.

<4> Next Perspectives, 2016, Aerial Photography for Great Britain, Next Perspectives APGB Imagery (2016), 19/07/2016 (Aerial Photograph). SCH9150.

<5> See map for surveyor, c.1837-51, Cheshire Tithe Maps and Awards, EDT 21/2, 1839 (Maps and Plans). SCH3266.

This map depicts field boundaries which correspond with these earthworks.

<6> Ordnance Survey, 1871-1882, Ordnance Survey County Series (Epoch 1) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ5068, 1875 (Maps and Plans). SCH2462.

The field boundaries are no longer extant, but survive in places as tree lines.