Monument record 463 - Stockton Heath - Site of Civil War siegeworks

In 1643 the Parliamentary forces threw up entrenchments at Stockton heath, near the Mulberry tree garden, where at various times since, great quantities of military accoutrements have been found. Near to them on one occasion there were not less than a thousand 'gipsy pipes' lying in heaps of 10 or 12 pipes together (1). No earthworks shown on any old plans and no trace of earthworks (2).

<1> Beamont W, 1877, An Account of the Cheshire township of Appleton since the Norman Conquest, /29 (Book). SCH3837.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, SJ68NW36 1964 (Index). SCH2487.