Projecting Bracket: Reading, Sewage Pumping Station / Museum   

Bracket on N.E. angle of Sewage Pumping Station [2GL]; BRACKET MUSEUM S SIDE GASWORKS RD SE ANG E FACE (height 37.9660m, 0.5m above ground) - now "The Riverside Museum at Blake's Lock".

Location
Grid reference: SU 7248 7349.
Landranger 175: Reading & Windsor, Henley-on-Thames & Bracknell.
Structure: Museum.
Waypoint: PB0255.

Neighbouring Flush Brackets

76	Caversham Hotel 1.76km to the northwest.
75	Appletree Eyot 4.39km to the west.
S9627	Shinfield 5.30km to the south.
10197	Winnersh, Reading Road 6.35km to the southeast.
3	Mapledurham Lock 6.61km to the northwest.

The nearest fundamental bench mark is Wallingford, 17.77km to the northwest.

Second Geodetic Levelling, England & Wales (1912-21)
This projecting bracket was used during the Second geodetic levelling, England & Wales, and was levelled with a height of 124.5380 feet [37.9592 metres] above mean sea level (Newlyn datum). It was included as a side level on the Basingstoke to Wallingford levelling line. The surveyor's description was Bracket on N.E. angle of Sewage Pumping Station.

Logged Visits
Logged on 17th May 2008 by dal. Condition: Good.
Location as in the OS database. Not sure if it has been moved or if the original 2GL log is not quite right. Actually now on the SE angle of the Bel and the Dragon restaurant, which occupies the part of the building on the west of the site. You pass the PB as you go to the museum buildings. Vgc.