Monument record 1574/5 - Lower Hollin Tongue Farmstead and Enclosure

<1> Various, Various, Oral communication to the HER, Turner R, 23/09/1988 (Oral Communication). SCH2330.

A curving enclosure now in the centre of Macclesfield Forest, but shown on Tithe Award map (see 2) as distinctive from other field shapes. May represent one of the enclosures in the Coombs related to the deer chase (see 3). Now covered by trees but some parts of boundary wall survive.

<2> See map for surveyor, c.1837-51, Cheshire Tithe Maps and Awards, EDT/255, 1848 (Maps and Plans). SCH3266.

Depicts the curving enclosure identified in (1) and a long building (or range of buildings) adjacent to the road. A couple of small outbuildings are also depicted.

<3> Harris, B.E. (ed), 1987, Victoria County History - A History of the County of Chester: Volume I, p.183 (Book). SCH3556.

By 1347 there was a hunting lodge at the Coombs which the chamberlain was ordered to repair. In 1361 the Black Prince ordered two lodges to be made in Macclesfield hundred and the chamber near the Coombs was mentioned in the survey of Whelley waste in 1638. In 1291 mention was made of inclosures for preserving the deer located near the Coombs and in 1303-4 expenditure was recorded for making an inclosure round the chase of Coombs.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1871-1882, Ordnance Survey County Series (Epoch 1) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ9671, 1871-1873 (Maps and Plans). SCH2462.

<5> The GeoInformation Group, 2005, 1940s RAF Aerial Photographs from Operation Review, 106G UK 645, 11/08/1945 (Aerial Photograph). SCH4608.

The buildings and western boundary of the enclosure are no longer extant.

<6> Bryant, A., 1831, Map of the County Palatine of Chester (Maps and Plans). SCH2114.

The farmstead is depicted, but not named.