Monument record 1232405000 - Stoke Park Gasworks

Summary

Site of late nineteenth century estate gasworks to Stoke Park

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Type and Period (3)

  • GAS WORKS (19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)
  • GAS HOLDER (19th Century - 1876 AD? to 1899 AD?)
  • RETORT HOUSE? (19th Century - 1876 AD? to 1899 AD?)

Description

Gasworks present on the 1876-1899 OS maps indicating a private gasworks to Stoke Park. A late C18th
house much altered and extended by Wyatt in 1790s. The gasworks were located at Stoke Park Farm and built by George Bower of St. Neots for J. Coleman Esq. Nothing visible survives (B15).

Sources (1)

  • <15>SBC25438 Bibliographic reference: Professor Russell Thomas. 2020. The Manufactured Gas Industry: Volume 3 Gazetteer. p35.

Location

Grid reference Centred SU 97467 83103 (28m by 41m)
Civil Parish STOKE POGES, South Bucks, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Nov 2 2021 2:44PM

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