Monument record 1443/0/1 - Castle Rock/Hill

On Castle Hill there are the walls of an old destroyed structure with a paved boulder road leading away from it. Castle Rock is a level platform of bare rock c. l5meters by 30meters above a cliff face, c.10meters high. There is no trace of a building, although the track leading to this viewpoint is roughly paved with stones. this extensively graffitied rock face section consists of conglomerate lying on Wilmslow sandstone. Two carved heads can be seen, one stylistically earlier and partly weathered in relief. Possibly 18th - 19th century in date. The signature of William Garner also appears.

<1> Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 1883 -, Transactions of the Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 19/95 Roeder C 1901 (Journal/Periodical). SCH3293.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, SJ87NE2.5/1964 (Index). SCH2487.

<3> 1998, Alderley Edge Landscape Project Archive, 80 (Unpublished Report). SCH4334.