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Esam Close, NEWARK, NG22 8FF

Nether Court (a cul-de-sac) is a side road serving a small housing development. It is seen here at its junction with Brickyard Lane. Main Street, the principal road through the centre of the village, is 5-6 minutes walk away behind the photographer. Ahead is an access point onto the Southwell Trail no more than 10 minutes walk away.

An untamed ash hedge at the side of Brickyard Lane, near to its junction with Nether Court. Access to the village is behind the photographer and one of several access points onto the Southwell Trail is situated 10 minutes or so walk ahead. The field on the left is currently being used for horse grazing.

A post bearing a "No unauthorised motor vehicles" sign and a "public footpath" sign marks the entrance to Severn Trent's Farnsfield Water Pumping Station (Operational since 1893). 10 minutes walk ahead is an access point onto the Southwell Trail, whilst the village itself lies a 10 minute walk away behind the photographer.

Looking east along a quiet cul-de-sac of tidy bungalows.

An footpath entrance/exit point. The path serves to connect this properties in this part of the village and it crosses Milldale Road - ahead - within a matter of minutes. The properties seen here are the rear elevations of houses lining The Ridgeway.

Large house on the north side of Brickyard Lane on the outskirts of Farnsfield.

The Ridgeway (< a road name) can be reached via Southwell Road on the left or via the passageway on the right. This is a view looking towards Main Street that commences near The Plough public house ahead.

This water pumping station, seen from Brickyard Lane, was officially declared open on 5 August 1898 and is still in use. It was built at the head of a 54ft well with an engine house (containing two steam-powered beam engines capable of pumping 480,000 gallons a day), a cooling pond and a reservoir at Newhall Farm, Edingley, about 11.5 miles away. The reservoir was built to hold 11.5m gallons of water pumped from here, it then being piped by gravitation to a service reservoir on Beacon Hill at Newark. From Beacon Hill, the water was piped to private subscribers and businesses around Newark. In 1902 a second reservoir was constructed on Beacon Hill, followed by the erection of a second pumping station in the 40s and the partial replacement of the old steam engines by oil-driven plant. Steam pumping here continued to some degree into the mid-60s only to be superseded by electricity after its management was taken over by Severn Trent in 1973. A 1948 aerial photograph of “The Newark Corporation (Farnsfield) Waterworks” can be seen on the following webpage: http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/eaw010447. Apparently the steam-warmed water in the cooling pond made it suitable for use as a swimming pool by villagers.

Barn walls and gateway in coursed rubble stonework. There is a bench mark http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4015800 on the near corner of the barn.