Description

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HYDE VALE
Hyde Vale Fountain and cattle trough

(Formerly isted as Conduit Head and cattle trough)

21-AUG-02

II
Drinking fountain and cattle trough. Cattle trough dated 1877. Drinking fountain is about 9 feet high built of stone, square in plan with hipped roof and squat octagonal shaft surmounted by cast iron bracket. Restored and street light reintroduced to bracket in 2021. Four semi-circular stone bowls with cambered arches above. The whole is situated on two square stone steps. The adjoining granite cattle trough is rectangular with two curbing stones facing south and dog trough beneath. It was erected by the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association and an inscription on the west end reads "IN MEMORIAM ROBERT TROTTER ESQ 1877."

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26283249

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)