{"id":4010,"date":"2025-03-18T09:44:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T09:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4010"},"modified":"2026-01-26T20:32:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T20:32:53","slug":"cleworth-hall-resistivity-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4010","title":{"rendered":"Cleworth Hall Resistivity Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last week at short notice a small team of volunteers mustered in Tyldesley to carry out a resistivity survey in search of the Roman road running from Manchester to Wigan. Our last year\u2019s Newsletter (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/content\/News_Letters\/news266.htm\">No.266<\/a>) reported on Jim Meehan research of the fields to the north and east of Cleworth Hall Farm for the Lancashire Wildlife Trust, who are now owners of the fields and responsible for their maintenance as a nature reserve. These fields have been of particularly interest to us over the years as it is though the Roman road runs across them being shown on the early 6inch OS map. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"wp-image-4012\" style=\"width: 600px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Resistivity-Survey-12-03-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Resistivity-Survey-12-03-2025.jpg 1067w, https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Resistivity-Survey-12-03-2025-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Resistivity-Survey-12-03-2025-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Resistivity-Survey-12-03-2025-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Resistivity-Survey-12-03-2025-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br>The survey was a great success with the line of the road showing up quite clearly in the result. You can read more about the details of our trip <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/?page_id=1839#Cleworth%20Hall\">here<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week at short notice a small team of volunteers mustered in Tyldesley to carry out a resistivity survey in search of the Roman road running from Manchester to Wigan. Our last year\u2019s Newsletter (No.266) reported on Jim Meehan research &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4010\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roman","category-site-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}