Upton Pumping Station
Introduction
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Upton Pumping Station
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp Taken: 8 Jan 2011
Nearer to West Hagbourne than Upton it nonetheless had this name because there is a West Hagbourne PS about 600m to the west of this one. See Image for a bit of info on that. Thames Water inherited a number of these little pumphouses from predecessor operators. Upton still bears the characteristic blue paint of the old Thames Valley Water Board. It was a better source than West Hagbourne and was kept in operation for longer, but like several others became redundant when the large source at Gatehampton near Goring came into operation. The aquifer here is Upper Greensand. Not a brilliant photo, but it's now on private land and seems to be in use as a shed by the new owners. I guess the boreholes are still there. The building is on the grid line.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.583789
Longitude
-1.265471