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Description: Water Siphon on Ovenden Brook to South of Old Lane Mill

Address: Site Of Redundant Mill Pond, Adj. Canal Dyeworks Lee Bank Halifax

Grade: II

Group detail: off Old Lane

Full description:
Water siphon and overflow sump. Early-mid C19. Stone construction with large gritstone blocks and metal cover and grate. Raised circle of large roughly dressed stone blocks has inner circle with circular cover as metal cob-web. This is over a deep stone lined circular shaft fed by water on the north side with a grate over the entrance to prevent debris from the stream falling into the shaft. At the south-east corner of a former reservoir now reduced to a stream. An impressive and unusual mill ancillary building.