Site of Old Pond Copse
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Site of Old Pond Copse
Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 2 Jun 2024
The name of the field according to Northchapel's 1837 tithe map that was originally the site of a pen pond for Image Located on the western side of Image with Image, another former pen pond a little downstream. Pen ponds were extra reservoirs of water used to replenish the main hammer pond when water ran low in it. By the 1830s this was a small copse which had been grubbed when the OS surveyed in the 1870s.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.059406
Longitude
-0.621394