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Belvedere
Baptist mission chapel late 19th
31 Subsidence in the rear garden. Clare Cottages seven in a terrace built in 1885. A circular pit 2.0m in diameter and 3.8m deep in use as a soak-away for the rainwater run-off from the roofs of the Cottages. A large diameter earthenware pipe enters the side of the shaft and discharges a steady trickle of water. The bottom 2.0m of the shaft had originally been lined with rough brickwork, a portion of which has survived. The bricks were of a poor quality, probably 'wasters' from a local 19th century brickfield. The shaft was dug by the Victorian builders of Clare Cottages as a deep soak-away with two adits to provide extra drainage area.
Bedon stream. This street borders an attractive area of open space around thestream, and further east it opens out into a parkland area with real ruralatmosphere. A footpath leads down from Grosvenor Road to a bridge over the stream.This is the only place where the Bedon stream can be seen; from here it is culvertedunderground to the Thames at Corinthian Manorway.
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