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Turnford Pumping
Station houses an engine purchased from Hampstead Water Works
Company in 1856 and constructed by Boulton and Watt. Water is
pumped into the New River from a well six hundred feet deep. The
Old engine was superseded by oil driven electricity operated plant
in 1956, but is being retained here because of its historic interest.
Just north
of the Turnford Pumping Station is Turnford Aqueduct. This was
built in 1854-5 by Thomas Docwra to the designs of William Chadwell
Mylne. William was the son of Robert Mylne and succeeded him as
architect to the New River Company in 1810, remaining in this
post until 1859. In the 1850's he widened, deepened and straightened
the New River. His aqueduct replaced an enormous loop of the New
River, the course of which extended well into Cheshunt Park. At
the point where this loop crossed a stream (Turnford Brook) Myddleton
had built a "flash" - ingeniously constructed to take
the New River over the stream and also to allow storm water in
the brook to shoot over the New River and thus not contaminate
the water supply.
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