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Latitude: 51.6589 / 51°39'32"N
Longitude: -2.6848 / 2°41'5"W
OS Eastings: 352728
OS Northings: 195793
OS Grid: ST527957
Mapcode National: GBR JL.6RCM
Mapcode Global: VH87M.FK0M
Plus Code: 9C3VM858+H3
Entry Name: Dam and Retaining Walls of Pond by the Walled Garden at Piercefield Park
Listing Date: 14 February 2001
Last Amended: 14 February 2001
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 24776
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300024776
This pool probably formed a part of the gardens laid out round Piercefield House by Valentine Morris in the 1760s and 1770s. The elaborate dam was necessary to retain water at the top of the cliff and the niche appears to have held the housing for a ram pump. For further history of the Piercefield estate see Piercefield House.
Stone rubble wall forming a bowed dam with a central arched niche which must originally have contained a fountain. Below this is another niche which still has an iron water pipe in it. This dam is about 3m in height in the centre and is about 30m in length. It forms one side of a rectangular pool which is enclosed by low rubble walls on the other sides. The pool is now almost dry.
Included as a late C18 garden water feature which, despite damage, remains a significant component of the nationally important historic landscape of Piercefield Park.
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