Monument record 2525/21/0 - Moulton Hall Works

<1> Lancaster University Archaeological Unit, 1992, Cheshire Weaver Valley Rolling Programme, An Archaeological Assessment., R2021 (Client Report). SCH4209.

Site surveyed and recorded in 1992 as part of an archaeological assessment undertaken in support of the Cheshire Weaver Valley Rolling Programme. Earthwork remains include buildings, railway sidings, brine cistern and ponds.

<2> Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust Archaeological Unit, 1993, Cheshire (Weaver Valley) Rolling Programme: Archaeological Site Investigation, R2055 (Client Report). SCH4208.

The site of and/or Moultonhall Works itself was leased for 50 years from 1858 at an annual rent of 76 pounds. Maps show it expanded considerably between 1877 and 1898, though this in part was a result of joining with its neighbour, Meadow Works. It was sold by Simpson, Davies and Sons to the Salt Union Ltd in 1888. It was described then as consisting of office, manager's house, stable, hayloft, blacksmith's shop and other buildings, 9 covered pans, stores, 6 chimneys, one wood brine cistern, saw pit, stores of all descriptions. It seems to have gone out of use around the end of the 1930s when only one building remained standing on the site. Little remains today except one large mound and depression, other earthworks and brick walls below 1.5m. The ground is relatively flat. Trenching revealed that there is good preservation of buildings below ground.

<3> Wallwork K L, 1974, Derelict Land: Problems in Modern Geography, Plate 75 & 175 (Monograph). SCH1041.