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Chequerbent embankment is a raised earthwork forming part of the Bolton and Leigh Railway, which opened in 1828 as one of the earliest public railways in England. The embankment, constructed to carry the railway line across the landscape near Bolton in Lancashire, survives as a substantial linear monument of early nineteenth-century railway engineering. It represents the physical infrastructure of this pioneering transport scheme, which connected Bolton to the Leigh branch of the Leeds-Liverpool Canal and played a significant role in the region's industrial development. The monument exemplifies the scale of earthwork required for early railway construction prior to more extensive engineering refinements.
Chequerbent embankment of Bolton and Leigh Railway is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1479269. View the official record →
Chequerbent embankment is a raised earthwork forming part of the Bolton and Leigh Railway, which opened in 1828 as one of the earliest public railways in England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1479269.
Chequerbent embankment of Bolton and Leigh Railway 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 1479269.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Gidlow Hall moated site, Aspull, 560m NNE of Pennington Hall (5.2 km), New Hall Moat, Astley, 200m north of Astley Hospital (5.6 km), Round cairn 280m west of Old Harpers Farm (6.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Chequerbent embankment of Bolton and Leigh Railway'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.
Chequerbent embankment of Bolton and Leigh Railway stands on Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Lower Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.