Monument record 1119/1/0 - Wheelock Old Salt Works

<1> Twigg G D, 1994, Salt Working In Cheshire, p.7 (Report). SCH2919.

The OS 6inch 1911 map shows "Wheelock Old Salt Works" at SJ 75355939, which are probably the same works. The area is very much disturbed & partly covered by a tip. There are no remains of the Old Salt Works (see source 2). Salt works established alongside the railway and east of the silk mill. The North Staffs Railway came through to Sandbach in 1851 and this salt works was a post-railway development. Became part of the Wheelock Iron & Salt company in c.1870(?) and part of the Salt Union in 1888. Kept working until closed down in c.1911. Works not demolished until the mid or late 1920's. Site landscaped and now a meadow.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, SJ75NE1 1964 (Index). SCH2487.

<3> Chester Archaeology, 1993, A534 Wheelock Bypass: Desk-Based Assessment, August 1993 (Client Report). SCH4302.

Archaeological assessment undertaken in 1993 in advance of the A534 Wheelock Bypass the route of which passes immediately to the east of the buildings depicted on the OS 1911 map and labelled 'Wheelock Old Salt Works'. Also observes that no salt works are depicted here on the 19th century Tithe map. There was no evidence of the former salt works on a site visit in 1993 and the area appeared to have been landscaped.