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Bedworth's water tower, built in 1898 and now converted into luxury apartments, overlooks an otherwise bland suburban scene.

A sign of the resumption of air travel as the Covid-19 pandemic recedes. A band of cirrus-like cloud forms a travel corridor across an otherwise clear sky. Photo taken at sunset from the waste ground at Hawkesbury; the Bedworth water tower can be seen on the horizon.

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.

Built in 1898, the 45 metre tower is a prominent and very distinctive Bedworth landmark. After some years of disuse it was sold in 2015 for conversion into flats and now appears to be part of a gated luxury housing enclave. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1116416 https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/local-news/look-go-inside-bedworth-water-9528106

This seems a very substantial bridge to carry the Bedworth by-pass over a footpath. In fact when the road was built in the 1970s there was a railway here - the Newdigate Colliery Railway. The colliery was closed in 1982 and the railway would have done so, probably shortly afterwards, when all remaining coal stocks had been removed.

This used to be The Orchard public house, which closed in 2012.