Little Hadham: Village pump and sign at Hadham Ford
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Little Hadham: Village pump and sign at Hadham Ford
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 19 Jan 2014
The pump is a Grade II Listed Structure and the English Heritage website describes it thus:- "Public pump, 1880. 2 metres high decorated cast iron painted white. Raised lettering cast on N side of chamber reads "ERECTED BY SUBSCRIPTION APRIL 1880". Wide cylindrical barrel with 2 raised rings and large spurred spout at upper ring. Moulded corbelled expansion to chamber with straight moulded spout. Moulded top flange carrying tall foliate cap with pineapple finial. Dog-leg wrought iron handle, pivoted on S face of chamber, tapers to large pear-shaped counterweight knob. Paved surround of blue stable chequer-paviours and white posts with chains between. A fine subscription pump of considerable artistic, social and technological interest. Part of a group at the middle of the Conservation Area." The village sign is a comparative newcomer to the scene, only being erected in 2000, and, as it is carved on it, 2000 AD in case we were in any doubt.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.876284
Longitude
0.084795