Gauge House, The Batch, Rickford
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Gauge House, The Batch, Rickford
Image: © Jo and Steve Turner Taken: 9 Mar 2022
Grade II Listed late 19th century sluice-house. It was built in 1895 by the Bristol Waterworks Company, beneath which is the sluice controlling the flow of water into the brook. It also controls an underground pipe to Blagdon Lake. Rickford Pond that flows into the brook under the house is fed from Rickford Rising on the opposite side of the road at the south end of the pond that also fed a leat to a flour mill and later a paper mill. The flour mill appears to have been destroyed by fire.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.330556
Longitude
-2.738273