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Photograph © Betty Longbottom, under this
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Claverton water-powered pumping station
Location
Grid reference: ST 793 645
OS sheet: 172
Postcode: BA2 7BH
5 miles S of Bath, A36 Bath to Warminster road. Turn L on river side of railway level crossing
down Ferry Lane, opposite Claverton village. (Caution - uncontrolled level crossing).
A waterwheel-powered beam engine pumping station, built in 1813 to pump water from the River Avon
to the Kennet and Avon Canal. Has a 18ft x 25-ft wide waterwheel. Restored to working order in 1978.
Owned by British Waterways Board and in the care of the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust.
Opening times
April to October, Saturdays, 10.00-17.00, Parties welcome at other times by appointment. Note not open Wednesdays, Saturdays & Bank Holidays in 2012 due to works on waterwheel, and pump not running 2012.
National Mills Weekend opening times
Saturday & Sunday, 10.00-17.00.
Contact
At pump, tel. 01225 483001, or John Adams, tel. 0117 986 5264. Parties: Jim Caldwell, tel. 01373 864957.
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