Northwich Through Time

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It is also theorised that this is the basis for the modern word salary. Another theory is that the word soldier itself comes from the Latin sal dare to give salt. See History of salt for further details. The fort was located on the west bank of the River Weaver.

The fort has been excavated from onwards and shows two periods of military occupation. The fort was smaller during its second occupation. The Romans used lead salt pans to extract the salt from the brine. Salt pans and 1st-century brine kilns have all been found around the Roman fort.

The association with salt continues in the etymology of Northwich. The "wich" or wych suffix applies to other towns in the area - namely Middlewich, Nantwich and Leftwich. This is considered to have been derived from the Norse , "wic", for bay and is associated with the more traditional method of obtaining salt from evaporating sea water. Therefore, a place for making salt became a wych-house; and Northwich was the most northern of the Wich towns in Cheshire.

The existence of Northwich in the early medieval period is shown by its record in the Domesday Book: There were the same laws and customs there as there were in the other wiches and the king and the earl similarly divided the renders. All the other customs in these wiches are the same. It is unclear if salt extraction had continued from the Roman to Medieval periods.

The manor of Northwich belonged to the Earls of Chester. However, in the family line died out. Subsequently, Northwich became a royal manor and was given to a noble family to collect tolls in exchange for a set rent. That salt production continued throughout the centuries can be seen through John Leland's description of the town in Although Leland described Northwich as a market town, there is no surviving charter for a market or fair. The salt beds beneath Northwich were re-discovered in the s by employees of the local Smith-Barry family.

Soon salt mining started again. This mining area is now known as Dairy House Meadow. The Trent and Mersey Canal , opened in , passed to the north of Northwich because of objections from the trustees of the Weaver Navigation.

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However, the canal passed salt deposits near the village of Marston , and many of the later salt works were based along its banks including the Lion Salt Works and New Cheshire Salt Works. The Anderton Boat Lift was opened in [9] to connect the canal and river systems.

An important development occurred when it became uneconomical to mine for the salt. Instead hot water was pumped through the mines, which dissolved the salt. This technique weakened the mines and led to land subsidence as they collapsed. Subsidence effected the town and the surrounding landscape. Bitterne Local History Society. Builth Wells Through Time. Barking and Dagenham Through Time. Chester in the s.

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