Top Park

Shaft remains from early workings on the hill above the Park Pits site in Poynton, Cheshire. These workings were extracting coal from the Sheepwash and Cannel seams which are close together and outcrop just beyond the tall trees on the left of this image. These are not bell pits and would have had galleries working out from the pit bottom. Shafts would probably have been connected underground to improve ventilation. The coal would be wound using a windlass. There is documentary evidence that coal was being worked here in 1635.