Old sewage works?

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Old sewage works?

Image: © Robin Webster Taken: 4 Nov 2013

This round brick structure seems to have no roof, and has what looks like a sewer pipe entering it from the direction of Ditcham House (now a school). Rather oddly, it is on high ground above Downley Bottom. Although marked on later 20th century maps, they give no clue what it is.

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Image Location

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Latitude
50.953558
Longitude
-0.930059