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Lion Salt Works is a scheduled ancient monument located near Marston in Cheshire, comprising the substantial remains of a salt production facility that operated during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The site preserves evidence of industrial salt manufacture using brine extraction methods characteristic of the Cheshire salt industry during this period. The remains include elements of the Alliance Salt Works, demonstrating the scale and technical infrastructure of salt production in the region. The monument represents an important survival of Britain's chemical and industrial heritage from the industrial era.
Lion Salt Works and remains of part of the Alliance Salt Works is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020841. View the official record →
Lion Salt Works is a scheduled ancient monument located near Marston in Cheshire, comprising the substantial remains of a salt production facility that operated during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Lion Salt Works and remains of part of the Alliance Salt Works 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 1020841.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Anderton Boat Lift, aqueduct, basins, meter building, toll houses and buried remains of salt chutes, inclined planes, the east basin and dockside features (2.3 km), Former soda ash and calcium nitrate works (3.7 km), Hulme Hall moated site (6.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Lion Salt Works and remains of part of the Alliance Salt Works'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.
Lion Salt Works and remains of part of the Alliance Salt Works stands on Triassic Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Triassic. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.