Coal mining was a big business in the Cheadle area.  Place names of an area have often given clues as to the shape of the countryside, its hills, dells, open spaces or rocky promontories.  Other places often named in later centuries from some activity or other taking place there.  The coal became of major interest to the surrounding area for, as the population increased, this a most important commodity in a district not blessed with ample windblown timber for burning.  One geologist has suggested that this coal may have been used for lime burning only since it was 'stinking' or sulphurous on burning but most of this outcropping coal was good domestic fuel and would be so used at that period.  Although the lime kiln was known in these early days it would not be a  common feature on the Delverne scenery as it would be further east where, in the Dove country, heavy limestone took no carriage to the kilns though the lighter coal did.