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Oldknow's limekilns, Strines Road

England
List entry 1001955
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1001955
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.26 hectares
Grid reference
SJ 96295 88438
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Oldknow's limekilns is a set of industrial lime production structures located on Strines Road in Cheshire, England. The kilns date to the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century and represent the expansion of lime-burning as a commercial industry during the Industrial Revolution. The site comprises the physical remains of kilns used to calcine limestone into quicklime, a material essential for agricultural improvement, building mortar, and other industrial processes of the period. The structures constitute an important archaeological record of the regional extractive industries that supported England's industrial development.

Oldknow's limekilns, Strines Road is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1001955. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Oldknow's limekilns, Strines Road?

Oldknow's limekilns is a set of industrial lime production structures located on Strines Road in Cheshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1001955.

Who is responsible for protecting Oldknow's limekilns, Strines Road?

Oldknow's limekilns, Strines Road 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 1001955.

What other scheduled monuments are near Oldknow's limekilns, Strines Road?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Western bowl barrow at Knights Low (6.8 km), Eastern bowl barrow at Knights Low (6.9 km), The Bow Stones Anglian cross shafts (7.2 km).

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Monuments
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Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Western bowl barrow at Knights Low
6.8 km
Eastern bowl barrow at Knights Low
6.9 km
The Bow Stones Anglian cross shafts
7.2 km
The Murder Stone: a standing stone 150m north west of Cornfield Farm
7.6 km
Bowl barrow on summit of Sponds Hill
8.2 km
Bowl barrow 50m south of summit of Sponds Hill
8.2 km
Round cairn on Reed Hill
8.7 km
Bowl barrow at Ox Close
9.4 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Oldknow's limekilns, Strines Road

Oldknow's limekilns, Strines Road 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.

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