Monument record 2754 - Parish Boundary in Rudheath

<1> Greater Manchester Archaeological Unit, 1993, King Street Northwich - An Archaeological Assessment, R2043/6 & 7 (Client Report). SCH1870.

Bank and ditch observed on the Huntings 1973 vertical aerial photographs running parallel to Penny's Lane. Line of this feature corresponds with that of the parish boundary, dividing Great Budworth and Davenham parishes. Faint traces of the ditch can still be identified, as well as green linear patches indicating the line of the ditch. Parish boundary would appear to have been a ditched boundary which has subsequently been filled in. Date of the ditch is unknown but would appear to pre-date the construction of Penny's Lane which appears on Burdett's map of 1777. It is possible that the ditch was constructed as a parish boundary from the outset, but it may also be the case that this boundary reuses an earlier ditch.