NHER 10357 (Monument record) - Site of Monks Loke steam engine house

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Summary

This 19th century steam drainage pump was designed by Edward Easton. The double gabled building contained a beam engine and scoop wheel which was later replaced by a compound horizontal engine.

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Map sheet TG30SE
Civil Parish LANGLEY WITH HARDLEY, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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Site of steam engine house, built for drainage purposes. It is not marked on (S1) but appears on all later 19th-century maps.
A. Yardy (HES), 24 October 2011.

October 2004.
(S2) states that this was Monks Loke steam pump, designed by Edward Easton, built around 1840. Double gabled building with beam engine and scoop wheel later replaced by a compound horizontal engine by Easton.
E. Rose (NLA), 27 September 2004.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Map: 1839. Langley tithe map.
  • <S2> Unpublished Document: Williamson, T.. 2002. Gazetteer of Broadland sites.

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Sep 24 2014 11:21AM

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