Water Towers: Region East Midlands

Leicestershire

Buckminster, The Drift

N 52.8040 – W 0.6820

Buckminster, Stainby Road/Manor farm

N 52.7969 – W 0.6937

Wymondham, Drift Hill

N 52.7583 – W 0.7185

Northamptonshire

Barby, Daventry Road

N 52.3215 – W 1.2053

Barby (former railway sidings)

N 52.3302 – W 1.2411

Brafield-on-the-Green, Furze Road

N 52.2189 – W 0.8016

Collyweston, The Drove

N 52.6103 – W 0.5247

Corby, Uppingham Road

N 52.4884 – W 0.7340                 N 52.4885 – W 0.7349

Corby, Phoenix Parkway (former iron and steel works)

N 52.4976 – W 0.6749

Corby, Rockingham Road

N 52.5105 – W 0.7166

Corby, Tanfields Grove

N 52.4963 – W 0.6971

Corby, Willow Brook Road

N 52.5003 – W 0.7139

Corby, (Stewarts and Lloyds Ltd iron and steel works) (demolished)

N 52.4954 W 0.6825

© John Cosford 1964

Image and information provided by Wilco Krul.

On the left side of the photo another water tower can be seen (in the background), with a light-coloured reservoir and a darker roof. Both water towers (and all of the other buildings in the photo) were demolished after the iron and steel works closed in May 1980. /Wilco Krul

Corby (Tata Steels)

(Earlier Stewarts and Lloyds Ltd iron and steel works)

N 52.4974 W 0.6579

© Wilco Krul 2023
View from Weldon Road.

Denford Ash

N 52.37035 – W 0.5180

Dingley, Braybrooke Road

N 52.4732 – W 0.8623

Earls Barton, Stevens Court

N 52.2704 – W 0.7388

Everdon, Everdon Stubbs

N 52.2024 – W 1.1056

Finedon, Irthlingborough Road

N 52.3365 – W 0.6438

Flore, Hillside Road

N 52.2394 – W 1.0675

Great Doddington, Earls Barton Road

N 52.2756 – W 0.7277

Halse

N 52.0625 – W 1.1687

Hemington

N 52.4499 – W 0.4179

Knuston, Irchester Road

N 52.2898 – W 0.6214

Mears Ashby, Highfield Road

N 52.3002 – W 0.7642

Nobottle, Roman Road

N 52.2552 – W 0.9894

Northampton, Boughton Green Road

N 52.2746 – W 0.8864

Northampton, Abington Park

N 52.2493 – W 0.8624

Preston Capes

N 52.1858 – W 1.1717

Roade, Manor Close

N 52.1590 – W 0.8890

Roade, Ashton Road

N 52.1527 – W 0.8906

Southwick, Glapthorn Road

N 52.5108 – W 0.4935

Upton, St Crispin Drive (former St Crispin Hospital)

N 52.2433 – W 0.9582

West Haddon, Northampton Road

N 52.3390 – W 1.0678

Wollaston, Irchester Road

N 52.2588 – W 0.6602

Woodford Halse (former railway yard)

N 52.1853 – W 1.2061

Yardley Gobion, Moorend Road

N 52.0974 – W 0.8930

Nottinghamshire

Gringley on the Hill, High Street

N 53.4081 – W 0.8836

Rutland

Burley, Exton Lane

N 52.6916 – W 0.6814

Manton, Wing Road (railway, converted)

N 52.6241 – W 0.6955