High Leigh Sunken Well And Donkey Track

Date:
11 Jun 2000
Location:
High Leigh Sunken Well And Donkey Track, Lord Street, Hoddesdon, Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, EN11 8SH
Reference:
IOE01/02580/25
Type:
Photograph (Digital)
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Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

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5251 HODDESDON LORD STREET (south side) Hoddesdon High Leigh Sunken well and Donkey track TL 30NE 3/3

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Mid C19. Sunken circular pen for donkey to draw water from well, approached by serpentine grotto passage. Yellow stock brick and flint. The pen is about 6 metres in diameter and 2 metres deep.

It has a low circular timber roof on later red brick supports.

Tunnel on W side. Grotto entrance on S has walls and arch of imitation rock made of yellow stock brick and cement. Covered well near centre.

Listing NGR: TL3606608965

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0871 IOE Records taken by A Gude; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr A. Gude. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project

People & Organisations

Photographer: Gude, A.

Rights Holder: Gude, A.

Keywords

Brick, Cement, Flint, Timber, Georgian Grotto, Victorian Gardens Parks And Urban Spaces, Well, Water Supply And Drainage, Water Storage Site