1 ‘Coal Pit Close’ marked.
2 ‘Coal Pit Close’ marked.
3 No visible traces during site visit.
The possible site of a Post Medieval quarry or coal workings. It is marked on an estate map dating to 1597. The site is located 500m south of Stareton.
1 The site is marked on the first edition 6″ map of 1886.
2 The site can be seen as an earthwork from the road.
The site of a quarry and kilns complex visible as an earthwork and identified from documentary evidence. The location is immediately to the southeast of Chesterton Wood.
1 A mound at SP33077235 is likely to be the Hundred mound of Motslow.
2On modern OS maps this is shown as a quarry.
The site of a mound which is visible as an earthwork. The mound may have been the Post Medieval meeting place of the hundred of Motslow. It is situated 400m south of Stoneleigh.
1 Two pits and a group of linear banks seen on aerial photographs to the south of Marston mill were mapped as part of the English Heritage National Mapping Project. ...
Two pits and a group of linear banks can be seen on aerial photographs to the south of Marston Mill.
1 Two limekilns located in a field named ‘Two Quarry Close’.
2 Incomplete information.
The site of two lime kilns, used for making lime, of Post Medieval date. They were situated 100m north of The Rough.
Young boys were employed in Warwickshire coalfields in the 18th and 19th centuries.
6d a day in 1729
A coal account book in the Newdigate archives refers to the use of boys ...