IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Doctors Pond, DUNMOW, CM6 1BB
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Doctors Pond, CM6 1BB by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Listing (64 Images Found)
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Doctor's Pond seen from North Street
Legend has it that the name "Doctor's Pond" is derived from a local doctor's use of the pond for breeding and keeping leeches which were used in the medicine of the day.
Lionel Lukin, who was born in Great Dunmow on 18th May 1742 and died at Hythe in Kent on 16th February 1834, was famous for inventing the first unimmergible lifeboat in 1784. Tradition has it that Lukin's first experiments with model boats were carried out on Doctor's Pond.
For more information about Lukin and his lifeboat see https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-17170 and https://todayinsci.com/L/Lukin_Lionel/LukinLionel-HistoryLifeBoat.htm
Image: © Marathon
Taken: 12 Oct 2019
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Doctor's Pond in Great Dunmow
It is thought that the doctors used to keep their supply of leeches in the Doctor's Pond.
Image: © PAUL FARMER
Taken: 4 Jul 2009
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Doctor's Pond
On the hottest day of the year so far - and a Sunday too - we expected more people to be sitting by the pond.
Image: © Trevor Harris
Taken: 26 Jun 2011
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Doctor's Pond seen from North Street
Legend has it that the name "Doctor's Pond" is derived from a local doctor's use of the pond for breeding and keeping leeches which were used in the medicine of the day.
Lionel Lukin, who was born in Great Dunmow on 18th May 1742 and died at Hythe in Kent on 16th February 1834, was famous for inventing the first unimmergible lifeboat in 1784. Tradition has it that Lukin's first experiments with model boats were carried out on Doctor's Pond.
For more information about Lukin and his lifeboat see https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-17170 and https://todayinsci.com/L/Lukin_Lionel/LukinLionel-HistoryLifeBoat.htm
Image: © Marathon
Taken: 12 Oct 2019
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Footpath alongside Doctor's Pond
Some sizeable looking trout were jumping for flies when I passed, but sadly I wasn't fast enough to capture them. The local anglers weren't having much luck either...
Image: © Robert Struthers
Taken: 20 Apr 2011
0.02 miles
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Doctor's Pond, Great Dunmow
Viewed from North Street.
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 11 Jan 2015
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Doctor's Pond, Dunmow
It is thought that the pond acquired its name from two local Doctors in the 18th Century who used the pond to breed leeches. The pond's other claim to fame is that Lionel Lukin (1742-1834), who it is claimed invented the lifeboat, made his first non-sinkable boat model in the pond.
Image: © Paul Collins
Taken: 9 Aug 2008
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Doctor's Pond, Great Dunmow, Essex.
It was on this pond that the inventor of the "unsinkable" lifeboat, one Lionel Lukin (1742-1834), first tried out his ideas using model boats.
Image: © Derek Voller
Taken: 22 Sep 2009
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Resting on thin ice, or taking a cold bath!
Image: © Chris Morgan
Taken: 29 Dec 2016
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