Monument record 237/1 - Tip Green Forge

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, SJ 74 NW 9 (Index). SCH2487.

Ironstone and iron slag were found in a 200m stretch of the stream centred at SJ 74284587. It seems likely that the furnace may have been sited in an area centred at SJ 74334580. [T.P. Waggot, 29/09/1964].

<2> See map for surveyor, c.1837-51, Cheshire Tithe Maps and Awards, EDT 92a/2 c.1844 (Maps and Plans). SCH3266.

The tithe award records two plots between Checkley Brook and the River Lea. The plots are named
Forge Meadow and Road, and Forge Field.

<3> Awty, B.G., 1957, Charcoal Ironmasters of Cheshire and Lancashire, 1600-1785, p.73 (Article in Journal). SCH9289.

Tib, or Tip Green forge is shown on Yates's map of Staffordshire (see 4) as lying on the Cheshire side of Checkley Brook at the point where the stream forms the boundary between the two counties. By 1646 this was almost certainly a finery forge for it was then in lease to Walter Chetwind of Rugeley, who was also in possession of Lord Paget's forge at Abbots Bromley, of his Cannock ironworks, the Heighley furnace and Winnington forge in Staffordshire, Norton forge in Shropshire and a forge in the township of Wrinehill in Cheshire, which must almost certainly have been Tib Green. This forge would then have probably been fining pig iron from Heighley furnace, and perhaps later from Madeley furnace, which Chetwind secured in 1649.

<4> Yates, W, 1775, A map of the County of Stafford (Maps and Plans). SCH9447.

This map depicts Tip Green Forge at approximately SJ 74456 45758.

<5> Various, Various, Oral communication to the HER, Edwards R, 13/07/2023 (Oral Communication). SCH2330.

Approximate area which has the potential to contain subsurface archaeological remains associated with the forge.

<6> Bluesky International Ltd, 2015-2017, Aerial Photography for Great Britain, Bluesky International APGB Imagery 2015-2017, SJ7445, 11/05/2017 (Aerial Photograph). SCH8848.

Dark soilmark c.120m x 60m visible at SJ 7431 4591.

<7> Bluesky International Ltd, 2010, 2010 Bluesky Survey, UXP_101011_5418, 11/10/2010 (Aerial Photograph). SCH5444.

Dark soilmark visible along the eastern side of Checkley Brook.