"Jumbo" water tower, Colchester

Introduction

The photograph on this page of "Jumbo" water tower, Colchester by David Hawgood as part of the Geograph project.

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"Jumbo" water tower, Colchester

Image: © David Hawgood Taken: 15 Jun 2006

The water tower was built in 1882 and became known as Jumbo named after the elephant.

Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0

Image Location

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Latitude
51.888815
Longitude
0.894741