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Crane Park Tower

Crane Park Tower

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Crane Park Tower

Name: Crane Park Tower
Rating: 2

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Location: London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

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1. Penton Hook Lock – Windsor Castle loop from Hampton Court

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2. Teddington Lock – View of Richmond Bridge loop from Walton-on-Thames

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3. Crane Park Tower – Diana Fountain, Bushy Park loop from Drayton Green

57.8km

03:19

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Kirk Bannister

July 26, 2021

Late C18 or early C19. Tapering brick tower in English bond. Built like a tower mill. Roofed with lead. Door and lower windows have painted arches with weatherboarded spandrels and stone keystone. Interior derelict and no floors. Stands in the middle of trees, which have grown up all round, beside one of the streams into which the River Crane is here divided by dams and sluices. This one belonged to the old Hounslow Powder Mills and is the only surviving building. (The mills were in all probability the first gunpowder mills in England, dating from the time of the Battle of Crecy, 1315.) Previously incorrectly listed as a Shot Tower. Perhaps instead a grinding mill.

Nice place to stop and rest and an interesting historical building.

Mucker69

September 21, 2022

A place of respite and tranquillity from the rigours of West London life.

Leon

April 9, 2023

Nice little ride

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Crane Park Tower

1. Penton Hook Lock – Windsor Castle loop from Hampton Court

2. Teddington Lock – View of Richmond Bridge loop from Walton-on-Thames

3. Crane Park Tower – Diana Fountain, Bushy Park loop from Drayton Green

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