MEM24946 - 19th Century estate wall at Church Close (Building)

SS 70153 49464. The remains of a drystone wall visible along the eastern and southern boundaries of Church Close. The best preserved sections are southwest of Top Lodge, which is 5 metres long, up to 1.2 metres high and neatly constructed of slabs of local sandstone; and northeast of the Lodge, where it is 4.5 metres long, up to 1 metre high and built of local sandstone, but with a parapet of upright stones. The southwestern wall has a large sycamore stump that is over 100 years old on the top, indicating the wall is part of the mid 19th Century estate boundary. [1]