Monument record 2947 - Adit and Shafts Adjacent to Bakestonedale Road

<1> Instone, E & Cranstone, D, 1994, Monuments Protection Programme Industrial Monuments Assessment: The Coal Industry Step 3 Report (Report). SCH4341.

This is identified as an area of adit workings and air shafts beside Harrop Brook. Along the valley only one capped shaft was positively identified, although small scale dispersed workings were visible over a wide area. There has been no case made for protection.

<2> Historic England & Archaeological Research Services, 2017, Cheshire National Mapping Programme and Lidar Mapping Project: Sampling the Peak Fringe, Cheshire Plain and Mersey Valley, 1480994, 1598140, 1598141, 1599246 & 1599247 (Digital Archive). SCH8172.

Post medieval coal mining is visible as shafts and associated mounds and an adit and spoil heap on vertical aerial photography. The earthworks remain extant on the latest 2010 aerial photography (see 3 & 4).

<3> National Remote Sensing Centre Ltd, 1992-3, National Remote Sensing Centre County Survey (1992-1993), Line 36 no.020-1 & Line 37 no.037-8, 31/10/1992 (Aerial Photograph). SCH5297.

<4> Next Perspectives, 2010, Aerial Photography for Great Britain, Next Perspectives APGB Imagery (2010), SJ9579, 17/10/2010 (Aerial Photograph). SCH8173.

<5> Higham N J, 1984-9, Professor Nick Higham's Aerial Photographs, 1988/2/1/21 (Aerial Photograph). SCH7659.

<6> Ordnance Survey, 1871-1882, Ordnance Survey County Series (Epoch 1) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ9579, 1871-1873 (Maps and Plans). SCH2462.

Depicts a coal shaft.