What is recorded here
Water Tower at Finningham, Suffolk is a castle, fort or tower in Mid Suffolk, England. Perhaps it guarded a quiet approach or marked a boundary no longer visible. Maybe water flowed through its base while people watched the sky from above. Imagine a rod clicking against stone, measuring rise and fall before instruments existed.
A named place photographed at this map point in Mid Suffolk.
Built in the 14th century, the Water Tower at Finningham was part of the defences of a now-destroyed medieval castle associated with the powerful de Valence family. It is remembered as a rare surviving example of a water tower from an English medieval castle.
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Photo: Nat Bocking · CC BY-SA 2.0