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The Great Merestone is a medieval boundary marker located on Finlow Hill near Mottram in Cheshire. The stone served as a territorial boundary point, likely marking the limits of medieval landholdings or administrative divisions in the area. As a physical monument, it represents the type of substantial stone marker used during the medieval period to demarcate land ownership and jurisdiction across the English landscape. Such merestones are characteristic features of medieval landscape organisation and provide archaeological evidence of the property arrangements and territorial divisions that structured medieval rural communities.
The Great Merestone medieval boundary marker on Finlow Hill, 245m east of Mottram House is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020194. View the official record →
The Great Merestone is a medieval boundary marker located on Finlow Hill near Mottram in Cheshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1020194.
The Great Merestone medieval boundary marker on Finlow Hill, 245m east of Mottram House 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 1020194.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 230m west-south-west of Birtles Hall (2.3 km), Bowl barrow 200m north-east of Capesthorne Hall (4.3 km), Bowl barrow 450m south-east of Capesthorne Hall (4.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of The Great Merestone medieval boundary marker on Finlow Hill, 245m east of Mottram House'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.
The Great Merestone medieval boundary marker on Finlow Hill, 245m east of Mottram House stands on Triassic Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Triassic. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.