This compact, brick reservoir was constructed in the late 1800s to supply a small market-town with drinking water. It was soon joined by three others as the town's population and infrastructure grew.
Like many others of the era, it became disused in the 1970s when a modern concrete reservoir with a larger capacity was built to replace it. Since then it seems the hatch to the chamber had seen few visitors, except for a lonely slow worm who seemed happy enough living in apparent solitude.