This beautiful place was designed in the early 1880s to pump millions of gallons of clean fresh water every day to the rapidly increasing population of Industrial Nottingham.

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February 15, 2023

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Papplewick Pumping Station, situated in open agricultural land approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) by road from the Nottinghamshire village of Papplewick, was built by Nottingham Corporation Water Department between 1881 and 1884 to pump water from the Bunter sandstone to provide drinking water to the City of Nottingham, in England. Two beam engines, supplied with steam by six Lancashire boilers, were housed in Gothic Revival buildings. Apart from changes to the boiler grates, the equipment remained in its original form until the station was decommissioned in 1969, when it was replaced by four submersible electric pumps.

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Fountain Dale Ponds – St Michael's Church, Linby loop from Ravenshead CP

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Sansom Woods Ponds – Blidworth Woods loop from Whinbush Lane

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Elevation 100 m

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Friday 3 April

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Max wind speed: 27.0 km/h

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Location: Papplewick, Gedling, Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom

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Papplewick Pumping Station

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Burntstump Country Park to Blidworth Bottoms loop via Samson Wood

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