Monument record 1784 - Caldecott Green

<1> Morgan P (ed), 1978, Domesday Book - Cheshire, 12-2 p.266c (Book). SCH1061.

Caldecott Green. Caldecott is first mentioned in the Domesday book in 1086 as having land for two ploughs, half a fishery, one rider, two villagers and three ploughmen

<2> Dodgson J McN, 1970-2, 1981, The Place-Names of Cheshire, vol.IV p.62 (Book). SCH3228.

The placename means cold hut

<2> Dodgson J McN, 1970-2, 1981, The Place-Names of Cheshire, Volume 2, P.62 (Book). SCH3228.

<3> Turner R C, 1986, Castletown, near Farndon, Cheshire, p.1 (Unpublished Report). SCH517.

'This straggling hamlet has now been reduced to 3 cottages. The remainder of the hamlet shows as tiny hedged enclosures, some used as orchards and small paddocks. A pump and trough stand forlornly at it's centre. The placename suggests it was a secondary medieval settlement.'

<4> Williams SR, 1970s-1980s, Rhys Williams' Aerial Photographs, 3.0097 Williams S R 1983 (Aerial Photograph). SCH4607.

An aerial photograph taken in the early 1980s shows probable additional house plots along the road

<5> Ormerod, G., 1882, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, Volume 2 p.690-4 (Book). SCH1389.

Ormerod refers to an Inquisition Post Mortem into the estate held in Caldecott by Thomas Calcotte in 1557-8. He held 4 messuages (a legal term which equates to a dwelling-house and includes outbuildings, orchard, curtilage or court-yard and garden) and 104 acres of land, including 4 acres of woodland

<6> See map for surveyor, c.1837-51, Cheshire Tithe Maps and Awards, Tihe Map & Award for Caldecott CRO EDT 355/4 (Maps and Plans). SCH3266.

Nine plots containing buildings are depicted on the Tithe map for the township which dates from 1839. The majority of the plots with buildings in show one or more buildings in black (a total of twelve) and a building in red (a total of eight)

<7> Ordnance Survey, 1871-1882, Ordnance Survey County Series (Epoch 1) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire (Maps and Plans). SCH2462.

The buildings in red would appear to correspond with those depicted on the Ordnance Survey 1st Edition 25" to 1 mile map.

<8> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, 1981 SJ45SW14 (Index). SCH2487.

<9> Cheshire Historic Environment Record, Various, Historic Environment Record Site Visit Record, R Edwards 04/06/09 (Unpublished Document). SCH5294.

The village is located on an east west aligned lane/green lane which joins another green lane at its eastern end (see CHER 1785). At its eastern end the lane joins the north-south aligned Shocklach to Farndon Road. The lane can be traced to the west through Caldecott Farm and the neighbouring field systems for approximately 500m. The present village comprises three houses and Caldecott Farm, which straddles the Shocklach to Farndon Road. A cast iron pump and sand stone trough stand on the southern side of the lane. There are numerous small enclosures, some gardens, some overgrown

<10> Various, Various, Oral communication to the HER, R Edwards 09/06/09 (Oral Communication). SCH2330.

It is probable that Caldecott and Caldecott Green have become compounded. It is probable that there were once two separate settlements, for example see Tilston and Tilston Green nearby. This may be what R Tuner means by Tilston Green being a secondary settlemet (see 3). Caldecott may have been near Caldecott Hall, but it may have also been Castletown (CHER 1783), but this is supposition

<11> Historic England & Archaeological Research Services, 2017, Cheshire National Mapping Programme and Lidar Mapping Project: Sampling the Peak Fringe, Cheshire Plain and Mersey Valley, 68910 (Digital Archive). SCH8172.

SJ 431521. Shrunken Medieval village at Caldicott, mentioned in Domesday Book, 1086. House platforms and other village earthworks are visible on oblique air photographs.

Shrunken medieval village.The settlement consists of a number of small plots scattered besides the road. These plots preserve the arrangement of the crofts of a small deserted settlement that is mentioned in Domesday 1086. There is no indication that there are significant remains of the houses and enclosures of the medieval period surviving here. There have been only a temporary settlement here as the name Coldecott indicates 'Cold cottages' (without hearths).

The remains of a number of earthwork ditches, platforms and rectilinear enclosures to the west of the present settlement of Caldecott Green, centred at approximately SJ 4277 5188, are visible on lidar imagery and were mapped as part of the Cheshire National Mapping Programme project. The earthworks remains extant on the latest 2013 vertical aerial photography and form a linear complex between fields of medieval / post medieval ridge and furrow (UID 1606668) to north and south (12,13).

<12> Environment Agency, 2003-2020, Environment Agency LiDAR Surveys, SJ425 06/12/2008 (Digital Archive). SCH7819.

<13> Next Perspectives, 2013, Aerial Photography for Great Britain, Next Perspectives APGB Imagery (2013), SJ4251 09-JUN-2013 (Aerial Photograph). SCH8273.

<13> Next Perspectives, 2016, Aerial Photography for Great Britain, Next Perspectives APGB Imagery (2016), SJ4251 09-JUN-2013 (Aerial Photograph). SCH9150.