Crampton Reservoir
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Crampton Reservoir
Image: © Roger W Haworth Taken: 8 Apr 2015
Just beside the Crampton Tower stands this reservoir or cistern. Built circa 1859 and holding 83,000 gallons of water. A write-up at the site compares it to rural cisterns in Turkish villages but I would also compare it to Image a few miles down the coast in Rye.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.359811
Longitude
1.433194