Walls And Plaques To Former Sluice On River Granta West Of Parish Church Of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Sluice.
Walls And Plaques To Former Sluice On River Granta West Of Parish Church Of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- eternal-buttress-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Country
- England
- Type
- Sluice
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
LITTLE ABINGTON TL 5249 Walls and two plaques to former 9/213 sluice on river Granta west of Parish Church of St Mary
II
Sluice walls and two plaques dated 1721. Limestone plaques, local stock brick wall. Originally sited on opposite banks each plaque is inscribed 'The bottom or lowest part of this stone is the height of ye Floodgate of this sluce 1721'. The original three-sluice dam and new cut were part of a scheme for flooding the water meadows between Abington and Babraham, designed and partly executed by Hugh May (1621) in c.1654 for his cousin Thos Benet of Babraham. A law suit in c.1720 against John Benet by Thos Westernerequired a flood gate to be erected to prevent flooding in Abington. A new cut further south in the C19 possibly made the C17 sluice redundant, and it is possibly then that the two plaques were sited on the south bank wall.
V.C.H. Vol. VI, p.25 C.R.O. Account of C17 Water Meadow.
Listing NGR: TL5265649225
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