The first cookridge water tower

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The Parksider
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The first cookridge water tower

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On crag hill "summit" stands a wood, in that wood is a water tank encased in concrete with "meat means murder" scrawled across it. Morrissey is the suspected vandal.

The tank was a puzzlement but Don Cole says that in 1908 wharfedale council condemned a few dairy farms for using "impure water".

So The landowner, Wormald of Cookridge Hall spent £860 to build the tank and a pumping station below the tank over the otley old road to pump water from a spring there, up to the tank for gravity distribution to the farms.

The wind powered engine was put in a small brick built engine house which is a roofless ruin still standing today.

If Leo has his camera?

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