Longford Pump
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Longford Pump by Roger W Haworth as part of the Geograph project.
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Longford Pump
Image: © Roger W Haworth Taken: 14 Mar 2006
Beside the London to Bath Turnpike (Bath Road) in Longford. Forget the aircraft landing or taking off every minute, let us go back to the days of the first horseless vehicles - steam traction engines. This pump is nearly 3 metres tall to enable the tanks of the engines to be filled. This and Image were kindly erected by the Colnbrook Turnpike Trust circa 1827 (see Image - the date of 1754 given on Image is too early).
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Image Location
Latitude
51.480347
Longitude
-0.483596