Description

ST 56 SW and 56 NW
3/163 and 6/163 WATERY LANE
GV
Aqueduct

GV II

Aqueduct for Bristol water supply. Completed 1851, James Simpson, Engineer.
Wrought iron tube, limestone piers and abutments. A run of c260 m of wrought
iron pipe of ovoid section cl.4 m deep and 1 m at its widest carried across
the valley and over Watery Lane on 14 piers in coursed, rock-faced masonry,
tapered square to concrete padstones carrying rocker bearings for the large
pipe. Piers vary in height to accommodate ground profile, and the central
pier is cruciform, with raking buttresses. At either end a stone revetment
wall, crowned with simple iron railing, containing reservoir in puddled clay.
The pipeline, still in use, is part of an 18 km supply line (see also previous
Item, and Harptree Combe, East Harptree, Wansdyde D.C.), and probably the
oldest surviving example of such engineering.

Listing NGR: ST5440465025

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26452036

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Recommended Books

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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  For the Record
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)