Kempton Park

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St Mary's Church

1829 rebuilt

Castle Hill?

Tudor Court old manor house shell, Gothicised in eighteenth century and turned into flats in 1923, two 16th century fire places in the grounds from Henry VIII kitchen, two alcoves and pediments with 16th century terracotta bust.

Land adjoining River Crane owned by Middlesex County Council

Country Way

Kempton Park Water Works. The works was planned by the New River Company but taken over and built by the Metropolitan Water Board, 1902-1908. The reservoirs are filled via the Staines aqueduct built in 1906. 

Lilleshall Building. A stock brick pump house, a boiler house, chimney and 12 slow sand filter beds built in 1902 by the Metropolitan Water Board.  They installed there five triple expansion steam engines from the Lilleshall Company each to pump 15 m.g. per day. To test the pumping engines and to get the filter beds working there was a special connection into the eastern Thames supply main which was built in 1872 by the East London Water Company from Hanworth Road filtration works to Finsbury Park. In March 1906 this was switched to Kempton Park because the new engines here were better than the Hanworth Road Cornish ones. There were three triple expansion engines for filtered water and two triple expansion engines for Staines reservoir water. Lilleshall engines removed. 

Memorial engine house of 1928. After much more mucking about 1924 two engines ordered for Kempton Park From Worthington Simpson Ltd - the two largest triple expansion steam engines built for water supply in Britain. There was also an order to Paterson Engineering Co for rapid filters.  . Also six Babcock and Wilcox Boilers and a new chimney. The engines last worked 11/1980.  Designed by Henry Stilgoe of the Metropolitan Water Board in red brick with stone dressings. Contractors William Moss & Sons Ltd.. Engines. It was finished in 1929, and inaugurated by Rt. Hon Arthur Greenwood. The engines were called Sir William Prescott and Lady Bessie Prescott after the chairman and his wife. The biggest engines are around 1,008-hp. In there was a 1920 small steam pump to let the old engines raise the 3W water to primary filters. In 1933 two steam turbines were installed to duplicate the triple expansion engines. Opened in October 1929 by Arthur Greenwood, Minister of Health. 

Primary Filtration house on the other side of Sunbury Road. Designed by Henry Stilgoe of the Metropolitan Water Board in red brick with stone dressings. Contractors William Moss & Sons Ltd.

Conduit to Littleton built in 1924 by Metropolitan Board of Works direct, after much mucking about. 2 miles long and 6 ' diameter goes onto Hampton as 48" cast iron Main.

Two large storage reservoirs built by New River Co in 1897 plus 2 filter beds, and pumping station to raise water from Staines aqueduct as part of Staines Reservoirs Joint Committee works and to pump filtered water. They built a 42 inch truck main 17 miles long to connect to the works to Fortis Green and to the balancing reservoirs at Cricklewood. All being built when Metropolitan Board of Works took over. 1905 modern control room and chimneys  built.

Narrow gauge railway that ran from Hampton to Kempton Park Waterworks, which used steam locomotives.

Shaft for the ring main.  The ring main connects to these shafts at a depth of 40m

Castle Way

St George 1865 St.George’s Church. In existence by 1293

Tudor Court. North alcove and bust in garden. Listed Grade II, Conservation Area, Scheduled Ancient Monument.  C16 terracotta bust in roundel supported in c18 brick pedimented feature.

Hanworth House

Park Road

The Old Vicarage


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