Bedworth Water Tower
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Bedworth Water Tower by Stephen McKay as part of the Geograph project.
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Bedworth Water Tower
Image: © Stephen McKay Taken: 18 Nov 2022
Bedworth's 45m (148ft) tall water tower, built in a simplified Romanesque style, is a prominent local landmark. It is dated 1898 but was not actually completed until 1900 and is now grade II listed. The tower supplied the town with water fed by gravity from a tank at the top; the water was extracted from an 84m (275ft) deep bore hole. That alone, however, was not sufficient to supply all the town's needs and additional water was pumped out of the Newdigate Colliery workings at a depth of about 460m (1500ft) - the colliery water was actually considered to be better quality. Today Bedworth's water is supplied from Welsh reservoirs and the tower was sold in 2015 for conversion to luxury apartments.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.475915
Longitude
-1.479506