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parted one from the other by a small brook: Sheathes they call them. The one stands not open, but at certain set times, because folk willingly steal the water thereof, as being of greater virtue and efficacy. From thence runneth Dan to
Bostoke, in time past Botestock, the ancient sear of the family of the Bostokes,
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In the 14th century the area around the current Wych House Lane was occupied by many salt houses. In 1892 a new salt works was established to the north of Wych House Lane, owned by the Dairy and
Domestic Company. In common with many of the works this was taken over by Henry Seddon in the early 1900s.
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In around 1913 the Pepper Street salt works were rebuilt by Henry Seddon. Following a merger between Seddon and Sons and
Cerebos in the late 1950s, the open pans at Pepper Street and those at the Cerebos site on Booth Lane were worked together as a single department, before being closed in 1968–1970.
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have been commonly called the Barons of
Kinderton. Beneath this southwards, the little river croco, runnerth also into the Dan...Croke, the river aforesaid being past Brereton, within a little while visiteth Middlewich, very near unto his confluence with Dan, where there be two wells of salt water,
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mentions the salt workings being yards away from the stone houses off King Street (i.e. the location given in the 1882 OS map). It is likely that this was the salt works of the Baron of
Kinderton, Peter Venables, in 1671, and it is listed in documents of 1682 as producing a weekly output of 2,210
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side of the River Croco. In the mid nineteenth century Ralph Seddon owned the works, and on his death it was sold to the Salt Union in 1888. Sometime between 1888 and 1919 the site was dismantled, however a capped off shaft which once formed part of the works could be seen from the path running
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Aman's Salt Works was opened on Brooks Lane shortly after the discovery in 1889 of rock salt and brine at the adjacent
Murgatroyd's site, with the earliest entry in the accounts book being 16 November 1892. The location of Aman's Works, between the Trent and Mersey
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stopped up these salt-pits when in hostile manner he wasted this shire; because the
Welshmen, so tumultuous in those days should not have any victuals or provisions from thence. But when the fair beams of peace began once more to shine out, they were opened again.
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houses" packed around the town's two brine pits. By 1908 there were nine industrial scale salt manufacturers in the town, with a number of open pan salt works close to the canal, however salt manufacture in
Middlewich is now concentrated in one manufacturer,
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in the 1920s. Until the early 1990s a derelict canal side warehouse still existed on the site, however this has now been demolished. All that remains now is a canal side flash (proposed as the site of a
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Newtons Salt Works at the same site as Wych House Lane Salt works (SJ705662). However the 1898 map places Newtons Salt Works to the south side of Wych House Lane, at approximately SJ706661.
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Harbutts Field (SJ70216696), to the north of the town. Recent excavations to the south of the fort have found evidence of further Roman activity including a well and part of a preserved
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were wont to do, but boil it over a fire to make salt thereof. Neither doubt I that these were known unto the Romans, and that from hence was usually paid the Custom of Salt, called
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The works continued to be used until around 1969, and were used by the town council as a depot until the 1980s. The land is currently a green field running down to the canal.
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The Pepper Street works were demolished in the mid 1970s (at around the same time as the gas works on the opposite side of the canal), and the site is now a housing estate.
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in the 1970s) and the foundations for the warehouse. Both the flash and warehouse foundations are now overgrown and hardly visible.
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bushels of salt from its seven pans. By the mid-eighteenth century this was the only saltworks on the
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