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Bath Road, READING, RG1 6PG

This is the attractive Victorian operating building at the Bath Road reservoir site, on the day after snow had fallen over much of south-east England. A combination of Victorian architecture and Reading's history of patterned brickwork has led to a particularly attractive design for such a functional building. This site has been the location of a controversial planning application for housing, including conversion of the buildings. However, there is a small nature reserve here, and the second planning application has recently been rejected (October 2009).

Looking along Haden Square off Bath Road.

This is one of the buildings associated with the reservoir. They are no longer used, and there are plans for houses on the site, creating much controversy as there is a little nature colony grown up in there. Update 8th October 2009. Reading Borough Council's planning committee has rejected plans for 100 houses to be built on the site, after a big local campaign.

A mile out of Reading to the west, and 16 east of Newbury, on Bath Road, now the A4, the coaching road from London to Bath.

Cast iron post by the A4155, in parish of Reading (Reading District), Bath Road; Water Pumping Station, West of Brunswick Street, in pavement, against wall of pumping station, 23 yds east of entrance to Water Works, on North side of road. Perry gabled iron casting, erected by the Twyford & Theale turnpike trust in the 19th century. Inscription reads:- : READING / 1 : : LONDON / 40 : : NEWBURY / 16 : Maker:- : T & J PERRY / READING : Grade II listed. List Entry Number: 1366003 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1366003 Milestone Society National ID: BE_LB40

Cast iron post by the A4155, in parish of Reading (Reading District), Bath Road; Water Pumping Station, West of Brunswick Street, in pavement, against wall of pumping station, 23 yds east of entrance to Water Works, on North side of road. Perry gabled iron casting, erected by the Twyford & Theale turnpike trust in the 19th century. Inscription reads:- : READING / 1 : : LONDON / 40 : : NEWBURY / 16 : Maker:- : T & J PERRY / READING : Grade II listed. List Entry Number: 1366003 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1366003 Milestone Society National ID: BE_LB40

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm37706

This is the pumping house for the reservoir, the embankments of which are behind the tree. They are no longer used, and there are plans for houses on the site, creating much controversy as there is a little nature colony grown up in there.