NHER 17521 (Monument record) - Post medieval/modern reservoir

1981. Discovered in removing mound of earth.
Reservoir, consisting of four corridors of brick arcades with barrel vaulted roofs. Exterior buttresses above ground. Three pairs of stovepipe ventilators. Capacity estimated at 318,220 litres (70,000 gallons; 10,000 cubic feet). Constructed between 1897 and 1907. Interesting example of industrial brick construction.
See newspaper report (S1) in file.
Newspaper report (S1) wrongly calls Mundesley.
E. Rose (NAU), 14 September 1981.

(S2) states that despite the location this was originally called Gimingham reservoir.
See (S2) for photograph of the construction.
The brick arches rest on iron jackbeams.
E. Rose (NLA), 22 January 2002.

November 2004. Norfolk NMP.
NMP mapping has led to the alteration of the central grid reference of the site from TG 2963 3780 to TG 2965 3780.
The reservoir described above, which is marked as Mundesley Water Works on an historic Ordnance Survey map (S3), is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs. It is particularly clear on photographs taken in 1965 (S4) and was mapped from these. The earthwork is approximately rectangular in plan and measures 24m long and 16m wide.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 10 November 2004.