Row Of 3 Stone Troughs With Stone Walls

This structure consists of a row of three stone troughs with stone walls, dating from 1841 and earlier, and restored around 1980. Made of gritstone, the troughs are aligned along the roadside, with the northern trough positioned at a lower level. The retaining wall on the west side is approximately 2 meters high and 6 meters long, featuring round coping and restored around 1970. There are two short walls at right angles to this main wall: one at the southern end of the southern trough, which has the date 1841 carved into the pointed coping stone facing the road, and a second wall situated between the central and northern troughs, also with pointed coping. Water flows from a pipe in the southern cross-wall, passing through the three troughs before draining into a roadside drain. This site is historically significant, as it appears on a map of Knaresborough from 1629 and is known as the Stockwell. The three troughs are also depicted on the 1851 Ordnance Survey map of Knaresborough.