Goldsitch Moss

Today I decided to have a peek at the small synclinal coalfield at Goldsitch Moss, just over the Cheshire border and into Staffordshire - in the shadow of the Roaches. At least three seams from the lower coal measures have been worked here since at least the beginning of the fifteenth century until the last workings closed in the nineteenth century. The whole area is just a mass of old shafts and spoil heaps interspersed with gin circles and trackways. I doubt that there is much coal left after this intensity of working.

This is one of the larger shaft remains which has run in at some time. My guess is that this one dates from the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century.