Marston area mines
(Late 19th & Early 20th Centuries)
My apologies for any slight waywardness in  the matching up of images: I only have an A4 scanner so couldn't do it 'all-of-a- piece'!  However I hope you get the general idea.
  The black squares are supporting pillars.
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The mines named are, from top to bottom, left to right:-
1 Marston Hall (rocksalt)
2 Pool
3 Old Bank
4 Adelaide
5 Top Mine
6 Helen
7 Alexandra
8 Old Bank
9 New Zealand
10 Crystal
11* Thompson's;
       Alliance New;
       Alliance Old
12 Brookdale or Milner's
13 Blackburn's New
14 Albert new
15 Nelson
16 Blackburn's Old
17 Albert Old
18 Ashton, Blackburn & Corbett
19 Coronation
20* Richardson's Top Mine,
      & Calvert's
21 Newmann & Ellson
     (filled in 1833)
22 Ellson or Gibson's
23 Littler's
24 Chantler's Old Mine
     (top & bottom mine)
25 'Top Lane'
26 Townshend's 'A'
27 Steenstrand's
28 R Dicman's
29 Furey & Co. or Broady &
    Hadfield
30* Saxon & Millar's;
      Townshend's 'C'
31* Townshend's 'D'
      Townshend's 'E'
32 Wincham Mine (Ashton,
     Blackburne & Corbett)
33* Williamson's;
      Heath Lane
34 No.87, WP ?4 ?E TA
    & No.3 & No.15
35 British Salt Co. Mine
36 Platt's Hill Mine
37 Kent & Naylor's
38 Marshall's No. 2 Pit
39 A Tompkinson's
40 Marshall's brine shaft
41 Cheshire Amalgamated,
     Dunkirk shaft.
42 Worthington
43 Ashton's
44 Winfen Jervis or Cliff & Broady
     or Barton's Old Mine
45 Barton's
46 Nicholas Ashton's
47 See: 44
48 Witton Hall mine
49 Marshall's No.1 pit
50 Worthington's mine,
    (late) Wakefield's mine.
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19
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28
29
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31*
32
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49
50
Compare this area with the details on
'boreholes'
Salt Legacy
Salt Proprietors in 1865
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