If you have been wondering what is down this hole, read on. The close up shots of the culvert under the road outside Jack’s house, shows the debris brought down by large amounts of water. Note the wood holding up the culvert!! This is now being replaced by reinforced concrete slabs.
Thanks to JF-S & Ben for the photos
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The culvert carries a second brook that runs through the village. Starting below Townhead, it runs down behind the houses on the west side of Smithy Lane, contributing to the water that gives Pool Croft its name and feeding the pond at Close Farm. From there it has been culverted, running under the road past the School and under Main Street.
Originally stone lined, it has been frequently disrupted between the old Shop and Jack’s by road and utility works. At least once in the last ten years it has been completely block by contractors not realising it was there. The subsequent repairs here have often replaced the original stone with other materials including the wood shown above. It may be the various disruptions of the culvert have caused a constriction here. Certainly water fairly regularly forced its way up through the road, being a significant factor in the flooding of Jack’s and Richard & Jo-anne’s houses in 2008.
It is good to see that it is being repaired here.
Then it goes on by the Green under Church Walk, crosses under the newer section of the graveyard, and then along under the Brook at Nethergreen and under the Jubilee pond, feeding into the Brook on the south side of the road by Wash Meadow.
Does anyone know how old it is? It doesn’t seem to be shown on the old maps, so I guess that would mean it is at least Georgian.