TWO MARKER POSTS SITUATED ON THE SOUTH EAST SIDE OF HOLME LODE

TWO MARKER POSTS SITUATED ON THE SOUTH EAST SIDE OF HOLME LODE, HOLME FEN NATURE RESERVE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1288011
Date first listed:: 11-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:: TWO MARKER POSTS SITUATED ON THE SOUTH EAST SIDE OF HOLME LODE
Statutory Address:: TWO MARKER POSTS SITUATED ON THE SOUTH EAST SIDE OF HOLME LODE, HOLME FEN NATURE RESERVE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1288011
Date first listed:: 11-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:: TWO MARKER POSTS SITUATED ON THE SOUTH EAST SIDE OF HOLME LODE
Statutory Address 1:: TWO MARKER POSTS SITUATED ON THE SOUTH EAST SIDE OF HOLME LODE, HOLME FEN NATURE RESERVE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: TWO MARKER POSTS SITUATED ON THE SOUTH EAST SIDE OF HOLME LODE, HOLME FEN NATURE RESERVE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Holme
National Grid Reference:: TL 20286 89395

Details

HOLME HOLME FEN NATURE TL 28 NW RESERVE 6/43 Two marker posts situated on the south-east side of Holme Lode

II

Two marker posts A and B. Post A erected in 1851 by Wm Wells replacing an earlier wooden post of 1848, post B erected in 1957. Cast iron. The two posts were erected to mark the shrinkage of the peat as the water table was lowered when Whittlesea Mere was drained. Post A originally from the Crystal Palace Exhibition hall; it is a fluted column with an octagonal base and is supported on poles with iron ties. Post B is an octagonal column mounted on a concrete base, the metal plaques are inscribed with ground levels and corresponding dates. Whittlesea Mere of which the nature reserve is a small surviving part was drained between 1849 and 1853. The nature reserve is managed by the Nature Conservancy Council. Wells, W. Drainage of Whittlesea Mere, Royal Agricultural Society Journal, Vol. 21 (1860).

Listing NGR: TL2028689395

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Legacy System:: LBS

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'Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England' in Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, , Vol. 21, (1860)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.