Washout, South Yorkshire

History

A sewer inspection chamber on the network just downstream of the local treatment works. The room runs underneath a railway track and the older parts feature the markings of the stone mason. The brick outfall changes to corrugated pipe running for around 100m before reaching the River Don.

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Rumbelow, Denby Dale

History

The River Dearne reaches the A635 Barnsley Road bridge at Denby Dale. Below the bridge, the Munchcliffe Beck joins, and there is a large millpond, which supplied mills at Denby Dale.

 

In 1932 a typhoid outbreak killed 12 people in Denby Dale from contaminated water in Square Wood reservoir. Some years earlier water closests had been installed for houses at Quaker Bottom and the sewer drainage from these houses was made to discharge in to the Munchcliffe Beck.

 

Source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Dearne

https://www.examiner.co.uk/lifestyle/family-history-80-years-typhoid-4941303

 

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Xenomorph, Sheffield

History

A 200m culverted section of the Meersbrook just upstream from the infall of the 'Stoopatron', featuring lots of strange ochre tinted calcifications.

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