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In order to display a database of water towers, Britain has been divided into county groups with each group on a separate web page. The starting point is the towers identified in Barton B. (2003) Water Towers of Britain, The Newcomen Society. This data has then been updated.

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Buckinghamshire





MURSLEY WATER TOWER (08BU01) This water tower is located just to the north of the village of Mursley in central Buckinghamshire, south-west of Milton Keynes. Not only is it a functioning water tower operated by Anglian Water Services, it is also a memorial to the 4 crew members who died when their Wellington bomber crashed into the tower on the 11 April 1943 during World War II. The tower had just been constructed in 1938 when the war broke out the following year. A plaque in the grounds commemorates the event. Grid. Ref. SP 8169829231.



GREEN HAILEY WATER TOWER (08BU02) Princess Risborough, Bucks. This tower lies in woodland at the top of Kop Hill. Grid. Ref. 824035. The tower is managed by Thames Water. This is one of several towers sited on the Chilterns Hills chalk escarpment.



3 Ash Hill, Newport Pagnell GONE
4 Prestwood GONE
5 Chivery, Aston Clinton
6 Lee
7 Northey
8 Bow Brickhill GONE


LANE END WATER TOWER (08BU09a) Lane End village, Bucks. This tower lies in woodland to the west of village; just off the B482 road opposite Lammas Way. Grid. Ref. 803917. The tower is managed by Thames Water. There is also a second tower and reservoir east of the village. WIDDENTON PARK TOWER.(08BU09b) It is managed by Thames Water and lies at the end of a rough track into woodland just south of the eastern road bridge over the M40. Grid. ref. 817916.


10 Terriers, High Wycombe GONE


FLACKWELL HEATH WATER TOWER (1 of 2) (08BU11) Tower Close, Juniper Hill, Flackwell Heath, just south-west of Beaconsfield, Bucks. HP10 9JQ. This large squat tower overflowed in 2011 threatening to flood local properties. It has subsequently been the subject of planning enquiries to turn it into a residential facility. Apparently in 1914 the Boy Scouts had to guard it, in case the German agents poisoned the water supply. Grid. Ref. 90346 89176

11 Flackwell Heath 1 & 2
12 Cliveden
13 Wooburn Green - could not find.
14 Yew Tree, Farnham Common - could not find.


COLESHILL WATER TOWER (08BU15) This lies at the end of Tower Road, just off the Amersham Road A355, on the eastern side of the village of Coleshill, south of Amersham. It was built by German prisoners during World War 1, and is now residential, albeit a stunning brick tower with a rather rusty tank on top. Grid. Ref. 958958.

16 Gerrards Cross GONE
17 Bulbourne, Marsworth
18 Beaconsfield Grange GONE


STOKENCHURCH WATER TOWER High Wycombe, Bucks. HP14 3TH. Located near the border with Oxfordshire.(08BU19) The picture, accessed by clicking left, dates from around 1930. It was subsequently demolished as part of a military exercise. The site is right in the middle of the village, on the A40, just a few yards from what is now the Kings Hotel, but now in a pitiful state as it was burned down about 2020.

COLESHILL WATER TOWER (08BU20) This tower lies on the A355, east of High Wycombe and south of Amersham, just east of the village of Coleshill, Bucks. in Tower Road. It is converted to residential having originally been built by German prisoners of war during the First World War to provide water for the nearby town of Amersham. It is brick built and is 30 metres high. Grid. Ref. 960955.




Bedfordshire




1 Heath and Reach
2 Leighton Buzzard
3 Poddington GONE
4 Turvey
5 Ridmont
6 Toddington GONE
7 Houghton Regis
8 Isle of Wight, Whipsnade
9 Periwinkle Lane, Dunstable
10 Milton Ernest
11 Sundon Park, Luton
12 Pulloxhill, Luton
13 Haynes GONE
14 Ravensden
15 Slip End GONE
16 Bailey Hill, Luton
17 Renhold
18 Hart Lane, Luton


MEPPERSHALL WATER TOWER Near Upper Stondon, Beds.
(08BE19) This prominent landmark lies just south of Meppershall village. Grid Ref 145358. It was constructed in 1949/50.




TOPLERS HILL TOWER, Edworth, Beds.
(08BE20) Located on the junction of the A1T just south of Biggleswade and the Langford lane west near Edworth. Grid Ref 216402.


21 Potton
22 Cranfield
23 Bromham Hospital
24 Vauxhall, Dunstable
25 Laportes, Luton GONE
26 Chicksands








The above illustration is a water tower recently spotted in Japan, albeit precise location is Tarumi, Kobe.







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