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Watermoor Road, CIRENCESTER, GL7 1JW

Bowly's Almshouses on Watermoor Road was built in 1826. A stone table on the front of the building reads 'BUILT MDCCCXXVI BY CHRISTOPHER BOWLY AND ENDOWED BY HIM MDCCCXXXVII'

The inscription reads: 'BUILT MDCCCXXVI BY CHRISTOPHER BOWLY AND ENDOWED BY HIM MDCCCXXXVII'

Before privatisation, one assumes.

The former Cirencester Urban District Council Water Works on Lewis Lane.

A former water works in the town of Cirencester. Another image of the same building, taken 6½ years earlier, is here: Image The crossroads in the foreground was the junction of two Roman roads, Ermin Street and Fosse Way.

Lewis Lane in the town of Cirencester. The crossroads in the foreground is the site where two Roman roads, Ermin Street and Fosse Way, crossed.

The Cirencester UDC Water Works building in Lewis Lane was constructed circa 1897. Constructed of coursed squared limestone to the front with brick to the sides and rear with a slate roof. The building was used for its original purpose until the 1930s when the water works moved to Baunton. The building had a number of later uses and is now part of a scheme of flats including the adjacent feed mill. Cirencester, the largest town in the Cotswolds, is a market town some 15 miles south east of Gloucester and some 13 miles north west of Swindon. The town lies on the River Churn, a tributary of the River Thames and is the hub of a network of roads. It is the home of the Royal Agricultural University, founded in 1840. An important Roman settlement known as Corinium, the town, with 240 acres enclosed by walls was second only to London in size.