Redacre No.2

Shaft No.2 of the Redacre Colliery in Lyme Handley lies alongside the Macclesfield Canal and was certainly active in the 1830s although the colliery seems to have been sunk before 1800. The flat area to the left of the shaft mound is likely to have housed the horse gin for winding coal up the shaft. The are also remains of steam winding engine bedstones in the hollow behind this.