Pond Bay, Normanton
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Pond Bay, Normanton
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 11 Nov 2011
The scrub woodland conceals a substantial earth dam/embankment, up to at least 5 metres high and around 150 metres long. It is shown in gothic script on OS maps, and was the dam to the mill pond of the medieval mill - a very substantial work for the period. It was clearly disused long before the earliest available OS maps of the 1880s were surveyed.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.890924
Longitude
-1.073242