Monument record 0420806010 - Copper Bottom Lake Dam, Queen's Drive, Stowe Landscape Gardens

Summary

The upper dam to Copper Bottom lake carries the Queen's Drive built in 1817

Protected Status/Designation

  • SHINE: Stowe medieval to post medieval landscape garden, medieval deserted villages of Lamport & Boycott, shrunken village of Daford, also moats, manors and fishponds, ridge and furrow earthworks & cropmarks, and areas of ancient semi natural woodland

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Type and Period (1)

  • DRIVE (19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)

Description

The National Trust's Survey of Stowe undertaken in 1989 notes that the upper dam of Copper Bottom Lake carries the Queen's Drive and has a retaining wall of rough limestone blocks which has somewhat collapsed. The upper lake has been lined and holds water (B18).

Sources (1)

  • <18>SBC19992 Unpublished document: Angus Wainwright. 1989. The National Trust Archaeological Survey: Stowe. pp39.

Location

Grid reference SP 6717 3646 (point)
Civil Parish STOWE, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Oct 20 2024 8:06PM

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