Monument record 1446/6/2 - Ponds/ Reservoirs in Windmill Wood.

Ponds/Resevoirs in Windmill Wood. A System of 3 or 4 ponds, several still partly filled with water. Sub-rectangular to square outlines and of different depths with causeway banks, ramps and possible sluice gate connections between them. It has not be established whether they were dug as resevoirs or whether they were initially dug as marl pits. They have been used for water management for some time, being on the 1872 Ordnance survey map as 'resevoirs'. A possible Leat system existed to the south of them leading to Wood mine but this is now indetectable. It is suggested that they were used with other resevoirs as a water supply for Wood and West Mines, particularly the lead crushing, washing and budding floors (1).

<1> 1998, Alderley Edge Landscape Project Archive, 132 (Unpublished Report). SCH4334.

<2> Timberlake, S. and Prag, A.J.N.W., 2005, The Archaeology of Alderley Edge (Book). SCH4769.