RAF Davidstow Moor Site No.19 Water Pumping Station.
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RAF Davidstow Moor, Site No.19 Water Pumping Station.
A 1940's RAF airfield would have needed a lot of water, all the quarters latrines and ablutions, Then all the Officers, Sergeants mess's and the Airmens Institute. Then the airfield site, with all its water needing building. MT, latrines, engine houses, etc, etc. So water needed to be found, pumped, stored. First the Davidstow ancient well was found and used with a pump pushing water into a ground based Braithwaite water tank, then it would be sent out to the Braithwaite water towers on the dispersed sites. From them gravity took the water to all the buildings that needed water.
RAF Davidstow Moor, Site No.19 Water Pumping Station.
Site No.19 Water Pumping Station.
Yellow on the plan.
Record Site Plan 4947/44
RAF Davidstow Moor, Site No.19 Water Pumping Station.
644 - Water Pumping House.
645 - M&E plinth.
Electrical sub station.
On the site of the wartime sub station is now a modern mains sub station.
Record Site Plan 4947/44
RAF Davidstow Moor, Site No.19 Water Pumping Station.
Well head.
644 - Water Pumping House.
645 - M&E plinth. Water tank.
RAF Davidstow Moor, Site No.19 Water Pumping Station.
St David's Church'
08 July 2008
RAF Davidstow Moor, Site No.19 Water Pumping Station.
The Temporary Brick pump house and the Braithwaite tank next to it.
08 July 2008
RAF Davidstow Moor, Site No.19 Water Pumping Station.
08 July 2008
RAF Davidstow Moor, Site No.19 Water Pumping Station.
Air-Raid shelter slightly up hill by the farm.
08 July 2008
RAF Davidstow Moor, Site No.19 Water Pumping Station.
Stanton Air-Raid shelter slightly up hill by the farm. This shelter I do not think it was ever covered in earth and it just shows the airfield planners even gave whoever was down here working, air-raid protection.
I have said this is a Stanton shelter, but it may be a Richard Costain type.
08 July 2008
RAF Davidstow Moor, Site No.19 Water Pumping Station.
St David's Holy Well - The Holy Well is located in the boggy hollow in a field owned by Church Town Farm to the northeast of Davidstow Church.
08 July 2008
RAF Davidstow Moor, Site No.19 Water Pumping Station.
An old water pump.
08 July 2008
RAF Davidstow Moor, Site No.19 Water Pumping Station.
The pump house remains.
29 April 2012
RAF Davidstow Moor, Site No.19 Water Pumping Station.
The water tank after removal.
29 April 2012
RAF Davidstow Moor, Site No.19 Water Pumping Station.
