The old small clapper bridge over Nanny Beck, Adel Woods.
- sparky415
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Re: The old small clapper bridge over Nanny Beck, Adel Woods.
I don't think that pond is that old. I remember it being dug about 25 years ago....... unless I'm wrong..
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- Leodian
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Re: The old small clapper bridge over Nanny Beck, Adel Woods.
Hi sparky415 .sparky415 wrote:I don't think that pond is that old. I remember it being dug about 25 years ago....... unless I'm wrong..
The footbridge (marked as F.B.) and what is almost certainly the pond are shown going back to at least an 1893 1:2,500 map in the Old Maps UK website. The pond is occasionally cleared of rubbish and weeds so perhaps that is what you saw.
I don't know if the pond ever had a specific purpose but if it did I wonder if it was to do with the flax mill that used to be close by, though it always seems to have only been a small pond.
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Re: The old small clapper bridge over Nanny Beck, Adel Woods.
Hi, yes, it must have been filled in for many years and dredged when I remebered it....
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