Sandstone Chimney To Former Copper Mine

The sandstone chimney to a former copper mine is an early 19th-century structure located in Bickerton. It is made of red hammer-dressed sandstone with neatly coursed masonry and has a square plan. The chimney is built in two stages: the lower stage is vertical and ends with a projecting weathered string course, while the upper section tapers and finishes with a slightly projecting narrow band and heavy terminal cresting. This chimney is the only remnant of the building that housed the pumping engine used to drain the copper mine, which was owned by the Egerton family of Oulton. The mine is reported to have been operational as early as 1697, according to Edmund Spargo's 1906 report, "The Cheshire Copper Mines, Bickerton Hill, Cheshire."