Pound at South End of Common
POUND AT SOUTH END OF COMMON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1262594
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1993
- Statutory Address:
- POUND AT SOUTH END OF COMMON
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- 2001-11-22
- Reference:
- IOE01/05324/33
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1262594
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1993
- Statutory Address 1:
- POUND AT SOUTH END OF COMMON
Location
- Statutory Address:
- POUND AT SOUTH END OF COMMON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- North Warwickshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bentley
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 28435 95998
Details
The following Building shall be added:-
BENTLEY BENTLEY COMMON SP 29 NE 1/10003 Pound at south end of common - II Pound. Dated 1846. Sandstone rubble with dressed quoins and rubble coping. Walls are about 2 metres tall and enclose a pound of about 6 metres square. Wide opening on SE side with wooden gate-posts. A section of the wall at the west corner has fallen down. One of the stones near the top of the NE wall is roughly inscribed:- 'BILT 1846' and either 'MINE' or 'MINER'. It is said that the pound might have been rebuilt by miners froma coal mine at Baxterley, about half a mile away. The mine owners were the Dugdales of Merevale Hall, whose estate included Bentley.
Listing NGR: SP2843595998
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- Legacy System number:
- 434599
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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