The Cookridge Pipe!

[Keg]

As a kid living in the Moseley Woods, we used to walk down the fields to the beck, and to the railway line. W eused to climb over the fence at the end of the little cul-de-sac opposite Moseley Wood Bank.unless i dreampt this, i remember quite a large bore cast iron pipe, the end of which was set in a stone reventment going dwn under the railway and back up.Does this ring a bell with anyone, and does anyone know what this was for, maybe one of the old mills, although it seemed to be in the middle of nowhere..

[The Parksider]

Keg wrote: As a kid living in the Moseley Woods, we used to walk down the fields to the beck, and to the railway line. W eused to climb over the fence at the end of the little cul-de-sac opposite Moseley Wood Bank.unless i dreampt this, i remember quite a large bore cast iron pipe, the end of which was set in a stone reventment going dwn under the railway and back up.Does this ring a bell with anyone, and does anyone know what this was for, maybe one of the old mills, although it seemed to be in the middle of nowhere.. You'll need an expert like Cardiarms for this but aren't such pipes carrying effluent or water supplies? Often at railway bridges you see big pipes being carried across......The old mills would have used mill ponds and mill races of which there's quite a few traces along Moseley back (and many other leeds becks)........

[jim]

Sometimes these hefty pipes across railways are gas mains, although it would seem less likely that the one at Cookridge carried gas - - unless someone knows better.

[Cardiarms]

Not on the yw water or sewrage plans

[Keg]

Thanks for the replies so far. That is what's so confusing about this pipe, it didn't seem to go anywhere or do anything. Where it finshed either side of the railway it was a nice stone reventment.