Rickford pump
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Rickford pump
Image: © Neil Owen Taken: 16 Feb 2016
The village used to take its water from this standpipe; it appears to be a modern version but there seems to have been a pipe here from the late nineteenth century. Even though the village has a number of Bristol Waterworks buildings and plant right on their doorsteps, the villagers were often to be found taking water directly from the brook here, right up until the 1940s.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.330465
Longitude
-2.738415