Monument record 4160 - Lord's Well next to Simmonds Hill

<1> Lancaster Archaeological Unit, 2001, Cheshire Boreholes Cheshire: Archaeological Assessment, p.35 no.47 (Client Report). SCH4257.

Well next to Simmonds Hill identified on the OS map of 1881 (first edition - see 2).

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1881-2, Ordnance Survey County Series (Epoch 1) 6 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ57SW 1881-1882 (Maps and Plans). SCH2474.

Labelled Lord's Well.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1871-1882, Ordnance Survey County Series (Epoch 1) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ5172, 1873-1875 (Maps and Plans). SCH2462.

Depicts a well, labelled Lord's Well.

<4> Ormerod, G., 1882, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, CXXXIX (Book). SCH1389.

The Lord's Well is named and depicted on a map of Delamere Forest in this volume dated 1813.

<5> Bryant, A., 1831, Map of the County Palatine of Chester (Maps and Plans). SCH2114.

Labelled on this map.

<6> Dodgson J McN, 1970-2, 1981, The Place-Names of Cheshire, Vol.III p.246 (Book). SCH3228.

The earliest documentary reference is 1831 (see 5).

<7> Unknown, c.1830, A Plan of the Forest of Delamere in the County Palatine of Chester (Maps and Plans). SCH9182.

Depicted and labelled on this map.

<8> Unknown, 1800-1833?, Cheshire: Delamere Forest (at the time of Charles I) (Maps and Plans). SCH9561.

The well is not depicted on this map.

<9> Chester Courant, 1878-1990, The Cheshire Sheaf, (Third Series) Vol. XXXIII 16/11/1938 p.103 [7484] & 23/11/1938 p.106 [7487] (Newspaper-Magazine). SCH3105.

Reports on a verbal description of the boundary of the forest at the time of the Act c.1811-12. This description makes reference to three wells along the forest boundary in the north-west; Swan's Well, Lord's Well, Wandlow Well, and Seething Well.