Name | Remains | Location | Date | Description |
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Acton churchyard cross | Stone structure | Acton 53.0736°N -2.5513°W | Medieval | The remains of a cross which consist of an octagonal shaft on three steps in St Mary's churchyard. In the late 17th century it was made into a sundial by the addition of a square cap with a ball finial. It is listed at Grade II.[1] |
Alderhedge Wood moat | Moat | Near Arley 53.3174°N -2.4748°W | Medieval | A rectangular water-filled moat measuring about 54m x 55m with a fishpond and connecting channel.[2] |
Aldford Castle | Earthworks | Aldford 53.1304°N -2.8698°W | 12th century | A former motte and bailey castle, probably built in the 12th century. Only earthworks remain; both the motte and the bailey are surrounded by dry ditches.[3] |
Ashton pottery kiln | Excavation site | Ashton Hayes 53.2169°N -2.7404°W | 13th century | A potter's kiln discovered in 1933 containing fragments of pottery, mainly jugs and pitchers, dating from the 13th to the 15th century. There are now no visible surface remains.[4] |
Astbury churchyard cross | Stone structure | Newbold Astbury 53.1508°N -2.2316°W | Medieval | The remains of a cross which consists of an octagonal gritstone base block standing on two octagonal steps in St Mary's churchyard. At a later date a sundial shaft was added. The structure is listed at Grade II. |
Baddiley village | Earthworks | Baddiley 53.0497°N -2.5863°W | Late Saxon and medieval | A deserted settlement in a shallow valley to the east of Baddiley Hall. There are signs of at least nine houses and barns on either side of small stream, which is now culverted. The Shropshire Union Canal runs through the eastern part of the site.[5] |
Barrow churchyard cross | Standing stone | Barrow 53.2093°N -2.7959°W | Early 15th century | The remains of the cross consist of a square base of two steps and a tapering octagonal shaft. This was made into a sundial and it stands in the churchyard of St Bartholomew's. It is listed at Grade II.[6] |
Barrow Old Hall moated site | Earthwork | Great Sankey 53.4013°N -2.6605°W | Medieval | This originally contained a timber framed house dating back to at least 1330. Subsequently, occupied by newer houses, it is now empty, and consists of a platform surrounded by a moat which is water-filled in three sides with a bridge crossing the western arm. Partial excavations took place in 1986–87 and 1995.[7] |
Beeston Castle | Castle ruins | Beeston 53.128°N -2.6919°W | 1220 and later | A medieval castle built on a previous hillfort. Building started in the 1220s and it was occupied by Simon de Montfort in the Second Barons' War. It was extended in the 13th and 14th centuries but by the 16th century had become a ruin, although it was involved in the Civil War. The medieval ruins are listed at Grade I.[8] |
Belgrave moated site | Earthworks | Eaton 53.1384°N -2.9126°W | Medieval | Formerly a manor house with a moat which was flanked on three sides by a medieval garden. By the early 17th century it was part of the Eaton estate and used as coppice woodland.[9] |
Belmont moat | Moat | Great Budworth 53.3016°N -2.5159°W | Medieval | Formerly a grange of Norton Priory. Now consists of a water-filled moat enclosing a five-sided platform with a causeway on the west side.[10] |
Bewsey Old Hall moated site | Moat, fishpond and building platform | Burtonwood 53.4014°N -2.6171°W | Medieval | Originally a grange, then a moated manor house. The moat, fishpond and the building platform are scheduled. Bewsey Old Hall stands on the platform.[11] |
Bostock Hall moat | Earthworks | Winsford 53.202°N -2.4862°W | Medieval | A rectangular waterlogged moat with an overgrown platform and a causeway.[12] |
Bradlegh Old Hall moated site | Moated site, gatehouse and fishpond | Burtonwood 53.4399°N -2.6463°W | Medieval | A 15th-century moated hall. The moat, the fortified gatehouse and a fishpond remain. A later farmhouse now stands on the platform.[13] |
Bradley Green | Earthworks | Bradley 53.0086°N -2.7386°W | Medieval | A medieval village now deserted. Aerial photography has shown small house platforms and a former road.[14] |
Bradley Hall moated site | Earthworks | Appleton, Warrington 53.3565°N -2.5166°W | Medieval | A former moated manor house. Most of the platform is now occupied by a more modern farmhouse and garden.[15] |
Bruera churchyard cross | Stone structure | Bruera 53.1392°N -2.8419°W | Medieval | This consists of the base and part of the shaft of a former standing cross, later converted into a sundial in churchyard of St Mary's Church.[16] |
Bruera moat and field system | Earthworks | Buerton 53.1395°N -2.8425°W | Medieval | A former moated manor house surrounded by an enclosure which is subdivided into smaller enclosures forming a field system.[17] |
Capesthorne Hall and chapel | Earthworks | Siddington 53.2497°N -2.2367°W | Medieval | The platform of the former chapel is marked by a 20th-century memorial pillar. To the southeast are earthworks remaining from the old hall.[18] [19] |
Castle Cob motte | Earthworks | Manley 53.2558°N -2.6998°W | Medieval | A steep-sided motte with no signs of a bailey, 23m in diameter and 2.8m high. An excavation found only black soil.[20] |
Castle Hill | Earthworks | Malpas 53.02°N -2.7672°W | Medieval | A mound which formerly held the keep of the castle of the Barons of Malpas. There is no sign of a bailey or a ditch. The church of St Oswald lies within the castle precinct.[21] |
Castle Hill system | Earthworks | Oldcastle 52.9918°N -2.7935°W | Medieval | Tree-felling in 1957 on a spur overlooking Wych Brook revealed a motte with a defensive ditch system on the England-Wales border.[22] |
Castletown deserted village | Earthworks | Shocklach 53.0558°N -2.8376°W | Medieval | A series of earthworks indicating a deserted village.[23] |
Cheersgreen Farm dam and millpond | Earthwork and pond | Peover Superior 53.259°N -2.3718°W | Mid 15th century | The pool was abandoned around 1750 and reinstated in 1977.[24] |
Chester city walls | City walls | Chester 53.1923°N -2.8891°W | Roman and medieval | These consist of an almost complete circuit round the city, 2miles long, including four gates and several towers linked by a red sandstone wall. The north and east walls follow the Roman foundations, while the south and west walls were extended in the medieval period.[25] |
Chorley Old Hall moat and fishponds | Moat and fishponds | Alderley Edge 53.2994°N -2.2453°W | Medieval | The moated site and three associated fishponds are scheduled. The site contains a house in two ranges, one built about 1330 and the other in the mid-16th century.[26] |
Cranshaw Hall moated site | Earthworks | Widnes 53.3936°N -2.7272°W | Medieval | The site is mainly covered by newer buildings but the west arm of the moat can be traced on the lawn.[27] |
Darley Hall moated site | Earthworks | Little Budworth 53.174°N -2.5893°W | Medieval | A rectangular moated platform formerly occupied by Darley Old Hall. The moat is waterlogged and in good condition on three sides. There is now no evidence of a previously recorded drawbridge.[28] |
Dee Bridge | Bridge | Chester 53.1855°N -2.8887°W | 14th century | A sandstone bridge of seven arches crossing the River Dee. It was widened in 1826 and is a Grade I listed building.[29] |
Denhall hospital and limekiln | Earthworks and ruined walls | Neston 53.2651°N -3.0486°W | c. 1231–34 | Site of St Andrew's Hospital, a monastic hospital for travellers to Ireland; dissolved in 1496. Later occupied by a parsonage which was demolished in 1738. Now consists of earthworks and parts of ruined buildings; also present are the remains of a limekiln.[30] [31] |
Dodleston Castle | Earthworks | Dodleston 53.1411°N -2.9563°W | Medieval | The flat-topped motte is 3.3m high and the bailey is well-defined.[32] |
Dodleston Hall moated site | Moat | Dodleston 53.1467°N -2.9559°W | Medieval | A moated site formerly occupied by Dodleston Hall. The moat is almost complete other than the southeast corner which is covered by buildings.[33] |
Drakelow Hall moated site | Moat and fishponds | Byley 53.2273°N -2.4443°W | Medieval | A rectangular moat with a further moated site to the southwest and four fishponds to the northwest.[34] |
Eccleston motte | Earthworks | Eccleston 53.1584°N -2.88°W | Medieval (probable) | An oval mound scheduled as a motte; it is partly surrounded by a ditch and banks.[35] |
Edleston moated site | Earthworks | Edleston 53.0529°N -2.5415°W | Medieval | A rectangular platform 50m x 30m surrounded by a dry moat with a ditch to the west and south.[36] |
Elton moated site | Earthworks | Elton 53.2675°N -2.8181°W | Medieval | An almost square moat with a causeway across the north arm and a channel at the northwest corner leading to a fishpond.[37] |
Farndon Bridge | Bridge | Farndon 53.0836°N -2.8798°W | c. 1345 | A bridge crossing the River Dee and the England-Wales border leading from Farndon to Holt. It is listed at Grade I.[38] |
Farnworth churchyard cross | Stone structure | Farnworth, Widnes 53.3842°N -2.7275°W | Medieval | This consists of a medieval base and plinth with a 19th-century shaft in St Luke's churchyard.[39] |
Fir Tree Farm moated site | Earthworks | Chester 53.1651°N -2.9094°W | Medieval | This consists of a dry moat enclosing an area 15m wide with a bank and ditch in the west and south.[40] |
Foulk Stapleford moated site | Earthworks | Foulk Stapleford 53.1714°N -2.7723°W | Medieval | A square moat with rounded corners; River Gowy is to the west and a disused mill race to the east.[41] |
Foxtwist moated site | Earthworks | Prestbury 53.3152°N -2.157°W | Medieval | The remains of a deep inner moat that enclosed a raised platform which is accessed by a causeway.[42] |
Gawsworth churchyard cross | Stone structure | Gawsworth 53.224°N -2.166°W | 15th century | This consists of a square cross-base and an octagonal shaft on a stepped plinth in the churchyard of St James'. There are carvings of beasts at the corners of the plinth. It is listed at Grade II.[43] |
Gawsworth roadside cross | Stone structure | Gawsworth 53.231°N -2.1688°W | Medieval | This consists of a plinth of dressed gritstone blocks rising to two steps, which is surmounted by a gritstone block cut into two steps with a fragment of shaft. It was the base for a preaching cross.[44] |
Glaziers Hollow | Glass works | Delamere Forest 53.2464°N -2.7007°W | 15th–16th century | The probable site of a medieval wood-burning glass furnace which was discovered in 1933. It was excavated in 1933–35 and again in 1947.[45] |
Golden Stone | Boulder | Nether Alderley Over Alderley 53.2942°N -2.2069°W | Medieval | A large boulder which acted as a boundary marker between the estates of the Stanley and De Trafford families.[46] |
Grafton | Earthworks | Grafton 53.0563°N -2.8243°W | Medieval | Evidence of several ditched enclosures shown by aerial photography which are overlain by an ornamental moat. These probably represent a deserted village.[47] |
Great Merestone | Boulder | Finlow Hill 53.2847°N -2.2107°W | Medieval | A stone 1.3m in diameter and 0.4m high marking the boundary between Nether Alderley and Over Alderley.[48] |
Hall Bank moated site | Earthworks | Wybunbury 53.0451°N -2.4448°W | Medieval | Earthworks of a square moat and a causeway leading towards the church.[49] |
Halton Castle | Ruined castle | Halton 53.3331°N -2.6957°W | c. 1070 and later | Ruins of a castle which was involved in the Civil War and then partly demolished, scheduled and listed at Grade I.[50] |
Harthill Bank Castle | Earthworks | Oakmere 53.2423°N -2.6511°W | Medieval | An earthwork which is scheduled as a motte and bailey.[51] |
Hatton Hall moated site | Earthwork | Hatton 53.144°N -2.7907°W | Medieval | A square moat, largely water-logged, which formerly enclosed Hatton Hall.[52] |
Haycroft medieval village | Earthworks | Spurstow 53.1108°N -2.666°W | Medieval | Aerial photography has revealed evidence of a medieval village and a field system.[53] |
Headless Cross | Stone | Oakmere 53.2066°N -2.6252°W | Medieval | This consists of the stone socket for a cross. The shaft is missing.[54] |
Holford Hall moated site | Earthworks | Plumley 53.2751°N -2.4377°W | Medieval | An almost complete waterlogged moat accessed by a stone bridge and a causeway. The platform is occupied by a 17th-century farmhouse.[55] |
Hough Hall moated site | Earthworks | Mere 53.3464°N -2.4195°W | Medieval | A platform surrounded by a dry moat, with two small fishponds and a dam.[56] |
Hulme Hall moated site | Moat | Allostock 53.2478°N -2.4139°W | Medieval | The moat and the ground beneath the bridge and the hall are scheduled.[57] |
Huntington Hall moated site | Earthworks | Huntington 53.1651°N -2.8692°W | Medieval | Site of moated manor house. |
Huntington Hall moated site (south) | Earthworks | Huntington 53.152°N -2.8545°W | Medieval | A square platform surrounded by a bank. |
Iddinshall moat | Moat | Tarporley 53.1594°N -2.6979°W | Medieval | A large moat, now dry, surrounding an area of on which Iddinshall Hall stood.[58] |
Ince Manor | Buildings and earthworks | Ince 53.283°N -2.8271°W | 13th–14th century | Formerly a monastic grange. There are also earthworks from a possible moat and a fishpool and portions of a boundary wall. The former hall and domestic range were restored in the 2000s. The hall is listed at Grade I.[59] |
Jarman Farm moated site | Earthworks | Sutton Lane Ends 53.2407°N -2.1053°W | Medieval | A curving ditched enclosure comprising one-third of a former moat. It is the only circular medieval moated site in Cheshire.[60] |
Kinderton Hall moat and fishponds | Earthworks | Kinderton 53.1995°N -2.4392°W | Medieval | Earthworks of a former moat and fishponds.[61] |
Knutsford chapel | Stone slabs | Knutsford 53.3053°N -2.3529°W | Early 14th century | A chapel originally dedicated to St Helena, later to St John, stood on the site and was demolished in 1741.[62] |
Lea Hall moat | Moat | Near Aldford 53.1239°N -2.8503°W | Medieval | A moated site 52m x 43m formerly containing Lea Hall, the middle arm of which has been filled in.[63] |
Little Moreton Hall | Building, moat and garden | Odd Rode 53.1271°N -2.2522°W | 15th century | The moated site of a manor house and the remains of an Elizabethan formal garden. The timber framed hall on the site is listed at Grade I.[64] |
Longstone | Stone structure | Little Budworth 53.2047°N -2.616°W | Medieval | Part of a medieval cross shaft set on modern base at a junction of a road leading to Vale Royal Abbey. It is listed at Grade II.[65] |
Longstone Lane wayside cross | Stone | Little Budworth 53.2055°N -2.6203°W | Medieval | It consists of a square stone with a hollowed top on a 19th-century plinth, thought to have been a wayside cross and also a plague stone. It is listed at Grade II. |
Lovel's Hall moated site | Earthworks | Halebank 53.3574°N -2.7846°W | Medieval | A square moated platform with a dry ditch formerly occupied by Lovel's Hall.[66] |
Lower Huxley Hall moated site | Moat and platform | Huxley 53.1551°N -2.7524°W | Medieval | A water-filled moat. partly lined with sandstone, with a platform now occupied by the 15th-century Lower Huxley Hall and its gardens.[67] |
Lymm Hall moat and ice house | Earthworks | Lymm 53.3793°N -2.4759°W | Medieval | Site of a moated medieval manor house with its ice house on a mound to the west. A later house has been built on the moated platform and a modern summer house on the site of the ice house.[68] |
Maiden's Cross | Stone | Alvanley 53.2568°N -2.7294°W | Medieval | A trapezoidal piece of sandstone with a chamber on the front face. Possibly the base of a wayside cross or a plague cross. It is listed at Grade II.[69] |
Malpas Cross | Stone structure | Malpas 53.0201°N -2.7655°W | Medieval | The cross has a medieval octagonal base of seven steps. The rest of the cross was added in 1873. It is listed at Grade II.[70] |
Marton churchyard cross | Standing stone | Marton 53.2087°N -2.2255°W | Medieval | This consists of the broken shaft of a cross on a stepped plinth in the churchyard of St James and St Paul. It is listed at Grade II. The rest of the shaft is inside the church.[71] |
Marton Grange moated site | Earthworks | Marton 53.2036°N -2.5662°W | Medieval | A moated site which contained a monastic grange which is accessed by a bridge with associated fishponds. The site includes the mutilated socket stone of a sandstone cross.[72] |
Merricks Hill chamber | Foundations | Delamere 53.2183°N -2.6688°W | c. 1354 | The foundations of a hunting lodge and administrative centre for the Royal Forest of Delamere on Eddisbury Hill.[73] |
Middleton Grange moated site | Earthworks | Aston 53.2883°N -2.6674°W | Medieval | A moated site with eight fishponds and connecting channels. It was originally a monastic grange and later the site of Middleton Hall and a chapel.[74] |
Mill Hill House Farm moat | Moat | Eccleston 53.1567°N -2.8974°W | Medieval | A square moat about 80m across, grass-covered and normally dry. |
Minshull Vernon moated site | Earthworks | Minshull Vernon 53.1389°N -2.4662°W | Medieval | A complete double moat, the external moat being dry and the inner one water-filled. A dry fishpond connects to the outer moat.[75] |
Mobberley churchyard cross | Stone structure | Mobberley 53.3183°N -2.3161°W | Medieval | This consists of a stone cross base and part of cross shaft in the churchyard of St Wilfrid's. It is listed at Grade II.[76] |
Monks Lane moated site | Moat and platform | Acton 53.0743°N -2.5549°W | Medieval | Square platform 10m wide surrounded by a water-filled moat.[77] |
Nether Alderley churchyard cross | Stone structure | Nether Alderley 53.2818°N -2.239°W | Medieval | The base is square below and shaped to octagonal above into which a rectangular shaft is set. It stands in St Mary's churchyard and is listed at Grade II.[78] |
Nether Alderley village cross | Stone structure | Nether Alderley 53.2891°N -2.2362°W | Medieval | Built in buff and red sandstone, this consists of a massive square base on which are three steps and a cube-shaped block. Into this is set a broken rectangular shaft. It is listed at Grade II.[79] |
New Manor Farm moated site | Earthworks | Preston Brook 53.3188°N -2.6311°W | Medieval | A rectangular platform surrounded by a water-filled moat on which is a modern farmhouse.[80] |
Norbury Booths Hall moated site | Moat and earthworks | Knutsford 53.2981°N -2.3467°W | Medieval | The largest moat in Cheshire, partly water-filled. A stone chamber outside the moat, which was formerly a cess-pit, is linked by a stone-lined culvert.[81] |
Norton Priory | Ruined abbey | Norton, Runcorn 53.3424°N -2.6795°W | 12th century and later | A former Augustinian abbey. After the Dissolution of the Monasteries this was converted into a Tudor, then a Georgian house. This house was demolished in 1928 and the ruins, which are listed at Grade I, now form the basis for a museum.[82] |
Old Hall Heys moated site | Earthworks | Hampton Heath 53.0372°N -2.756°W | Medieval | A dry rectangular moat from 10–12m wide, enclosing an island 38m x 43m.[83] |
Overton | Earthworks | Overton 53.0294°N -2.7872°W | Medieval and post-medieval | Earthworks of platforms for buildings, hollow ways and the remains of ridge and furrow cultivation indicate a deserted village.[84] |
Peel Hall moated site | Moated site | Kingsley 53.2747°N -2.6907°W | Medieval | This consists of a water-filled moat which is lined with a stone wall. The house burnt down in the 1660s and an 1840 house now occupies the platform.[85] |
Peover Superior churchyard cross | Stone structure | Peover Superior 53.2581°N -2.3431°W | Medieval | The cross base is square rising to octagonal and the shaft was added in 1907. It stands in St Lawrence's churchyard and is listed at Grade II. Part of the shaft of the cross is used elsewhere in the churchyard to support a sundial and is also listed at Grade II.[86] |
Pott Shrigley churchyard cross | Stone | Pott Shrigley 53.3098°N -2.0851°W | Medieval | The base of the cross consists of two stepped stones, which are probably medieval, in the churchyard of St Christopher's. The shaft and cross were added later. It is listed at Grade II.[87] |
Prestbury Road cross | Standing stone | Near Macclesfield 53.2728°N -2.1553°W | 11th century | A former parish boundary cross which consists of a pillar in buff sandstone with a broken top. It is listed at Grade II.[88] |
Pulford Castle | Earthworks | Pulford 53.1217°N -2.9349°W | 11th century | The remains consist of a mound with an encircling earthwork.[89] |
Reaseheath moated site | Earthworks | Worleston 53.084°N -2.5228°W | Medieval | An enclosure surrounded by a rectangular moat measuring 53m x 43m which is now dry; the southern arm has been destroyed.[90] |
Ridge Hall moated site | Moat and channels | Sutton, Macclesfield 53.235°N -2.098°W | Medieval | A dry rectangular moat with associated channels. It is the only Cheshire moat on a hillside and is the highest in the county.[91] |
Rixton Hall moat | Moat | Near Hollins Green 53.4004°N -2.4773°W | Medieval | A water-filled moat. The present hall lies to the south.[92] |
Rushton Hall moated site | Earthworks | Eaton, Rushton 53.1635°N -2.6312°W | Medieval | A rectangular moated site with no sign of a building on the platform. Adjacent is another moat which was probably a fishpond.[93] |
Saddlebole boundary marker | Stone | Nether Alderley Over Alderley 53.2995°N -2.2109°W | Medieval | A stone marking the boundary between Nether Alderley and Over Alderley.[94] |
Salterswall wayside cross | Stone | Winsford 53.1986°N -2.5593°W | Medieval | This consists of a square sandstone block with a hollow in its top. It is sited at a road junction and was probably the base for a cross.[95] |
Sandbach churchyard cross | Stone structure | Sandbach 53.1434°N -2.3611°W | Medieval | The base is a massive piece of gritstone formed into two steps. On this is part of the shaft which is rectangular at the bottom, rising to octagonal. It stands in St Mary's churchyard.[96] |
Shocklach Castle | Earthworks | Shocklach 53.0519°N -2.8449°W | Medieval | This consists of a motte 4–5m high, and a D-shaped moated enclosure.[97] |
Shotwick Castle | Earthworks | Saughall 53.227°N -2.9758°W | Medieval | The earthworks consist of a mound, the remains of the motte, surrounded by a ditch with the bailey to the southeast.[98] |
Shotwick Hall moated site | Moat and island | Shotwick 53.2412°N -2.9966°W | Medieval | This consists of a moat which is mainly silted up surrounding an island about 25m x 32m which now contains a coppice.[99] |
Southley Manor moated site | Earthworks | Alpraham 53.1286°N -2.6279°W | Medieval | This consists of two moated platforms with associated field systems.[100] |
Stanlow Abbey | Stone walls | Stanlow Point 53.29°N -2.8591°W | 1178 | A Cistercian monastery which moved to Whalley Abbey in 1296, the site becoming a monastic grange. Some walls and foundations are still present.[101] |
Stoak churchyard cross | Stone structure | Stoak 53.2535°N -2.8655°W | Medieval | This consists of a massive square block of local sandstone with the lower part of a shaft which has been made into a sundial. It stands in St Lawrence's churchyard and is listed at Grade II.[102] |
St Oswald's well | Well chamber | Winwick 53.4421°N -2.5925°W | Medieval | The holy well is lined with stones and contains steps; it is overgrown and covered by a stone slab.[103] |
St Winefride's well | Well head and drain channel | Clutton 53.0918°N -2.7874°W | Medieval | The holy well consists of a stone wellhead and drainage channel.[104] |
Swineyard Hall moat | Moat | Near High Legh 53.3503°N -2.4852°W | Medieval | Three sides of the moat are preserved as a stone-lined ornamental pond. A 16th-century hall stands on the platform.[105] |
Sutton End Farm cross | Stone | Sutton, Macclesfield 53.2203°N -2.0676°W | Medieval | A sandstone block which was a waymarker. It is listed at Grade II.[106] |
Tabley Old Hall | Derelict house on moated site | Tabley Inferior 53.2926°N -2.4218°W | c. 1380 and later | This consists of the remains of a house built in 1380, and subsequently extended, which used to contain a timber-framed hall. It partly collapsed in 1927 and was abandoned leaving a shell of the building which is listed at Grade II*.[107] |
Tarporley churchyard cross | Stone structure | Tarporley 53.1579°N -2.6691°W | Medieval | This consists of a square base of red sandstone and a shaft of yellow sandstone which stands in St Helen's churchyard. It is listed at Grade II.[108] |
Tatton settlement, old hall and mill dam | Earthworks | Tatton Park 53.328°N -2.3673°W | Late Neolithic, Saxon, and medieval | A former village occupied in the late Neolithic, Saxon and medieval periods. Now deserted and only earthworks remain. Includes the ground beneath Tatton Old Hall.[109] |
Tilston churchyard cross | Stone structure | Tilston 53.0497°N -2.811°W | Medieval | This consists of a two steps with an octagonal base supporting an octagonal shaft. It stands in St Mary's churchyard.[110] |
Toothill enclosure | Earthworks | Macclesfield Forest 53.2454°N -2.044°W | Medieval | A quadrilateral enclosure whose purpose is uncertain.[111] |
Upton Grange moat | Moat | Upton 53.2163°N -2.864°W | Medieval | A dry moat to the east of Upton Grange.[112] |
Vale Royal Abbey | Buildings, foundations | Vale Royal 53.2247°N -2.5423°W | Medieval | The largest Cistercian church in England which was demolished after the Reformation and replaced by a mansion.[113] |
Venables' tomb | Canopied tomb | Newbold Astbury 53.1505°N -2.2315°W | Late 13th century | A canopied tomb in the churchyard of St Mary's. It is listed at Grade II*, and is a scheduled monument.[114] |
Warmingham churchyard cross | Stone structure | Warmingham 53.1459°N -2.4364°W | c. 1298 | A cross base of three steps and a socket stone to which a later shaft has been added. It stands in St Leonard's churchyard and is a Grade II listed building. |
Wervin chapel | Ruined building | Wervin 53.2403°N -2.8711°W | 13th century or earlier | Ruins of a chapel.[115] |
Wood Farm moated site | Earthworks | Woolstanwood 53.0995°N -2.4947°W | Medieval | The moat was trapezoidal in shape and it enclosed a platform 90m square.[116] |
Woodhey wayside cross | Stone structure | Faddiley 53.0694°N -2.6323°W | Medieval | The remains of medieval wayside cross at the junction of four lanes which consist of a square section of a shaft standing on a socket stone on a number of pieces of stone from a later date. It is listed at Grade II*.[117] |
Wybunbury moated site | Moat | Wybunbury 53.0426°N -2.4457°W | Medieval | A moat surrounding a platform 40m square with outlet channels, a causeway and a nearby fishpond.[118] |
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