Northchurch pumping station
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Northchurch pumping station
Image: © Graham Horn Taken: 10 Apr 2010
This is where additional canal water supplies are drawn up from a deep borehole in the chalk beds. With so much canal to feed, water supplies were obtained from as many places as possible. The pump house was built in the 1840s.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.772099
Longitude
-0.588918