Calcot, West Berks (click on photograph to bring up bigger/better version).

Two old turnpike pumps remain at Calcot (near Reading, but strictly in West Berkshire), and they were part of a series of such pumps "installed originally to keep the dust down on the London to Bath Rd." This one is still in its original position on the A4, opposite The Old Post House. Thanks to Tom Gamble for the 2020 photos (copyright) on the left, and to Mike Woolford for the 2012 photo on the right. Markings: None. Manufacturer: Assumed to be Hedges of Bucklebury.

The other turnpike pump had to be removed from the verge in the layby which used to be almost opposite the Calcot Hotel, because of a council road-widening scheme. The Friends of Linear Park offered a new home for the pump at the Beansheaf Community Centre, Charrington Road, Calcot, and after a thorough cleaning and painting re-erected it in 2014 as the centrepiece in their Sensory Garden. Thanks to Iain Pate, Secretary of Friends of Linear Park, for the photo (near left) of the pump in its new location, and an interesting history, to Tom Gamble for a 2020 photo of it with a smart new colour scheme (far left) and to Mike Woolford for supplying a photo of it where it used to stand (see right). Markings: None. Manufacturer: Hedges of Bucklebury.

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