Melingriffith water pump
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Melingriffith water pump
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 16 Feb 1992
This scheduled monument is a water wheel driven water pump that used the waste stream from the former Melingriffith steel works to pump water back into the Glamorgan Canal. It has been completely rebuilt but I am not a fan of the modern machine cut wood.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.512117
Longitude
-3.23779