Lendal Tower

LENDAL TOWER 

Dating from about 1300, ti was 
originally part of the City's 
defences, with a defensive chain 
stretching from here to the Tower 
on the opposite bank. In 1677 it 
was leased to the predecessors of 
The York Waterworks Plc for five 
hundred years, at an annual rent
of one peppercorn.During the 18th 
century it housed a steam pumping 
engine modified to the design of 
John Smeaton FRS, then a 
proprietor of the Waterworks. It 
ceased to be used for those
purposes in 1850. In 1932 it was 
refurbished and now houses the 
Company's Board Rooms.

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