Old wind pump base and pump house, New River Head
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Old wind pump base and pump house, New River Head
Image: © Robin Webster Taken: 21 Mar 2013
Both the round building and the one behind and to the left are grade II listed. The round one is the base of a wind pump, built about 1708, around 100 years after the New River was completed, to pump water up to a higher level reservoir to improve water distribution around London. It seems to have been unsatisfactory, and was replaced around 1720 by horse gins until the age of steam kicked in. In 1768 power for pumping was taken over by a steam engine housed in the large building. The engine was replaced and the building altered over the years, it no longer houses any machinery.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.528507
Longitude
-0.109472