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Anderton Boat Lift is a scheduled ancient monument in Cheshire, England, comprising the remains of an ambitious nineteenth-century industrial complex associated with salt extraction and canal transport. The site contains the substantial masonry structure of the boat lift itself, which raised and lowered vessels between different water levels, alongside the aqueduct, basins, and meter building that formed part of the integrated system for moving goods between the Weaver Navigation and the Northwich branch of the Trent and Mersey Canal. Buried beneath the site are archaeological deposits including the remains of salt chutes and inclined planes from earlier industrial operations, as well as features of the east basin and dockside infrastructure, which collectively document the evolution of Cheshire's salt industry during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The surviving structures and subsurface remains provide significant evidence for the development of industrial engineering and the commercial networks that connected Cheshire's extractive industries to national waterway systems.
Anderton Boat Lift, aqueduct, basins, meter building, toll houses and buried remains of salt chutes, inclined planes, the east basin and dockside features is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1021152. View the official record →
Anderton Boat Lift is a scheduled ancient monument in Cheshire, England, comprising the remains of an ambitious nineteenth-century industrial complex associated with salt extraction and canal transport.
Anderton Boat Lift, aqueduct, basins, meter building, toll houses and buried remains of salt chutes, inclined planes, the east basin and dockside features is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1021152.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Lion Salt Works and remains of part of the Alliance Salt Works (2.3 km), Belmont moated site and fishpond (3.3 km), Bowl barrow 120m east of Village Lane (5.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Anderton Boat Lift, aqueduct, basins, meter building, toll houses and buried remains of salt chutes, inclined planes, the east basin and dockside features's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Anderton Boat Lift, aqueduct, basins, meter building, toll houses and buried remains of salt chutes, inclined planes, the east basin and dockside features stands on Triassic Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Triassic. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.