The present grid iron terraced housing that includes this site was constructed between 1891 and 1905 with little regard for earlier landscape features. The boundaries of this polygon show the area of the head goit, dam, buildings and part of the bypass and tail goits of the Stalker Wheel. The earliest certain reference to the wheel is from the 1705 Eccelsall Rate Books (Crossley 1989). In the late 18th century the wheel was in the hands of the Broomall Estate which lay to the north. Fairbanks plan of 1840 (reproduced in ibid.) shows the extent of the complex at that time (from which the present polygon has been interpreted. The dam lay to the north of the polygon (beneath no's 40-60 Stalker Lees Road) whilst the wheel buildings (which survived until the construction of the new streets) were centred on SK34097 86001. The mill had 15 troughs by 1798 and was converted to a wire mill around 1865. Water power is thought to have been abandoned around this time and by 1891 the dam is now longer depicted. Only the weir (south west of the cemetery gates) can still be seen. Fragmentary legibility of water powered site from the weir.