The map from the Derbyshire Mapping Portal, shows the Spring, the old Tank and the now disused Severn Trent Service Reservoir.
April 2020 sold by auction for private house build.
Says Russ Boyack: Back in the early 1900's Bakewell RDC refused to supply the village with a piped water supply. The Parish Council resolved to provide their own water supply. They bought the pipes from the Clay Cross iron works and had them delivered by train to Millers Dale station. The local farmers then carted them to the village. The local village men then dug a trench the length of the village and laid the pipes. A local land owner donated a plot of land behind the Church Inn? and a brick reservoir was built, taking its water from the village spring. This is the spring that supplies the troughs at the head of the village. Bakewell RDC eventually took over the water supply. A similar undertaking was carried out for the village sewage system and that discharged down a mine shaft. Again eventually Bakewell RDC took over the sewage system. All as related to me by the clerk to the Parish Council in the 1980's.
April 2020 sold by auction for private house build.
Says Russ Boyack: Back in the early 1900's Bakewell RDC refused to supply the village with a piped water supply. The Parish Council resolved to provide their own water supply. They bought the pipes from the Clay Cross iron works and had them delivered by train to Millers Dale station. The local farmers then carted them to the village. The local village men then dug a trench the length of the village and laid the pipes. A local land owner donated a plot of land behind the Church Inn? and a brick reservoir was built, taking its water from the village spring. This is the spring that supplies the troughs at the head of the village. Bakewell RDC eventually took over the water supply. A similar undertaking was carried out for the village sewage system and that discharged down a mine shaft. Again eventually Bakewell RDC took over the sewage system. All as related to me by the clerk to the Parish Council in the 1980's.