The Round House
Remains of the windmill used c.1709 - 1720 to pump water from the round pond to the upper pond (now Claremont Square reservoir).
Site: New River Head windmill (1 memorial)
EC1, Amwell Street
The Round House
Remains of the windmill used c.1709 - 1720 to pump water from the round pond to the upper pond (now Claremont Square reservoir).
EC1, Amwell Street
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
New River Head windmill
Used c.1709 - 1720 to pump water supplied via the New River from the round po...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
New River Head windmill
When this authority was formed it took over responsibility for water supply f...
Gerald Durrell, 1925 - 1995, zoologist and writer, lived here as a child. English Heritage
When we first visited, September 2014, there was no plaque, just two holes drilled in the front of the plinth to indicate that there had ...
This information plaque is giving the provenance of the immense slab of information about Beaumont to its left.
The building is dated 1893 and presumably was named after Blackfriars Priory even though that was on the other side of the river.
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