NHER 9694 (Monument record) - Post medieval lime kilns

April 1977. Visit.
Limekiln, Whitlingham.
Overgrown circular flint structure, top missing and walls shattered, details not visible. Brick tunnel just under a metre (3 feet) high leads inside.
E. Rose (NAU), 16 April 1977.

Bridewell Museum has records of two adjacent limekilns at Whitlingham said to have been destroyed in about 1970, but these may be another site.
No. J. Jones (NCM Bridewell curator) confirms that there is a second kiln to the south, but now almost completely buried.
E. Rose (NAU).

First kiln unusually set above ground level owing to the risk of flooding. 18th/19th century.
The second (buried) kiln is early 20th century.
E. Rose (NAU).

The limeworks included a tramway shown on Ordnance Survey map of 1886, running from pit by church through kilns to river wharf, where loaded for Berney Arms mills.
Later moved to site NHER 9662. See (S1). The early wooden tramway was here as early as the 1840s.
E. Rose (NAU), 25 February 1983.

J. Goldsmith (NCM) states that the outer kiln was buried in earth to preserve it in 1993 to 4 but because the tunnel was not properly infilled first, the roof collapsed. The southern kiln has been excavated; it has a brick floor to the tunnel; a door has been fitted so that it will serve as a bat roost.
E. Rose (NLA), 8 March 1994.

September 1994. Visited.
The outer kiln, now buried, was set against Whitlingham Lane and is that described above as visible in 1977. The other kiln is some distance to the south, set in what was a shelf in the side of the pit. The new door gives a view into the tunnel surrounding the bell of the kiln.
E. Rose (NLA), September 1994.

Before Mid-march 2000. Stray find. Found near kiln.
Identified by P.A. Robins (NCM). Small round flint flake with hinged tip. Edges worn, damaged. Undatable Prehistoric.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 20 July 2000.

See (S2) in file.
D. Gurney (NLA), 27 May 2003.

See also NIAS records (S3)
W. Arnold (HES) 13/12/2010